Rich Roszel

Ed, my colleague in Commentary Control, is from Baltimore, MD.  His wife called the other day to report the three feet of snow that had just fallen in the front yard.  Ed and I looked at each other.  We’ve seen but a few inches of snow falling since we’ve been here in Whistler.  Mind you, there’s still a ton of snow on the ground, but no new stuff.

My friend, David, with whom I worked in Beijing, is now the Venue Technical Manager at Cypress Mountain near Vancouver.  Cypress is home to the Snow Board competitions.  David emailed me yesterday to give me the rundown on snow conditions there: it’s being delivered by truck and helicopters.  Who’da thunk it?

I was just thinking, in the interest of International Goodwill, that President Obama should consider an emergency relief airlift of snow from the front lawn of the White House — and from the greater DC area — to help out the poor snowboarders stuck at the top of Cypress Mountain with no way down.  Don’t know how far I’ll get with the idea, but if you’d like to help, perhaps a call or two to your representatives in Washington could turn this whole mess around.  After all, it takes a village …