Bloomberg could be next political Snowzilla

THE news was buried in the reports about the Blizzard for the Ages, as the media described the biggest snowstorm to ever hit the Washington, DC, area that with wind-whipped fury went on to pummel most of the East Coast, including New York City, and ended up bringing the nation's capital to a standstill over the weekend.

With Washington lurching from under the snowfall on Monday and officials announcing that parts of the federal and local governments would be closed for a few days, and as drivers stayed out of the roads and pedestrians stayed out of the streets, the expectation was that the digging out of the Snowzilla - which lasted close to 40 hours and delivered more than two feet (60 cm) of snow in some parts of the region, would probably take a week.

The result was that Washington's corridor-of-power that stretches between the White House and the United States Capitol was buried in snow and was transformed into a playground for the children of the government officials, lawmakers and lobbyists who make the city run on a normal day.