A few flurries — even the threat of a few flurries — bring Washington, D.C., to its knees and bring out the deep mocking from those who know snow. Check out this Twitter trash-talking. From Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz:
@jasoninthehouse
Look at all this snow that shut down the federal government for the day. None! #whimps
From Minnesota's own Rep. Erik Paulsen:
@RepErikPaulsen
Despite the winter weather here in DC, my offices remain open to serve #DC03 constituents. My door is always open.
From a former Minnesota Chamber of Commerce staffer now Ranku founder, Cecilia Retelle:
@Ceci_DC
In WI this is considered a nice winter day!
From a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman, Brandon Lorenz:
@bllorenz
I've seen more snow in Wisconsin in May.
From a former Minnesota House staffer Bethany Aronhalt on Instagram:
@thanyann
Over 30 degrees and a few inches of snow = snow day in DC and entire city shuts down. I think I've had more snow days working here than I did growing up in Minnesota :)
And from snarky journalists aplenty:
@jgrovum (Jake Grovum)
Crippling, U.S. government-shuttering snowfall in D.C. today.
@JonahNRO (Jonah Goldberg)
I reject @SonnyBunch & @conncarroll's effort to exempt DC from mockery. It snows here. DC's never ready AND always overreacts. Mockable!
@RachelSB (Yours truly)
There is a paralyzing dusting of snow in DC, which means glorious season of mocking weather wimps has arrived. To wit, this YouTube video: www.bit.ly/1hKTg3x.
@emmacarew (Emma Carew Grovum)
CC @RachelSB this is a real thing>> RT @postlocal: The National Zoo is closed today because of the snow.
House Speaker John Boehner's spokesman Brendan Buck asked for a break from the mockery:
@BrendanBuck
Everyone who wants twitter to know how tough they are because they grew up with snow: save it.
But it was not to be:
@RachelSB
No. I will spend my mockery.
And the mockery continued.
@davelevinthal
Won't even comment on these #DC flurries for fear of being called out as the smug, snow elitist from Buffalo that I am.
@RebeccaShabad
all of Upstate/Central New York is laughing at us right now
See the photos that go with the tweets at http://tinyurl.com/kqoy9oc.