Getting ready for the Inauguration
Jan. 14th, 2013 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vamysteryfanDC is dressing up and battening down for the Inauguration. They've installed temporary cell phone towers on the Mall to help with the expected massive tweeting and cellphone call volume. Along the parade route, they've started removing the newspaper boxes and sealing manhole covers. The Newseum is dressed up already.
On Sunday, they held a rehearsal for the parade. At the Capitol they played recorded music and practiced the introductions. The bands were absent, but they timed the parade and check security. It was a foggy morning.
Smithsonian Castle in the fog.
One lone protestor using solar cells to power his computer.
Military practice standing along the parade route. All services were there.
Posing with the Lone Sailor. It looks like he's part of the gabfest.
Oh, look, it's another POTUS
One nutty thing. For the past 15 months they've been resodding and repairing the grassy part of the Mall near the Capitol. The fences are coming down just in time for the inauguration. One part of the restored section will be protected, but another part will be opened up just in time to be trampled by the crowds. Dumb.
On Sunday, they held a rehearsal for the parade. At the Capitol they played recorded music and practiced the introductions. The bands were absent, but they timed the parade and check security. It was a foggy morning.
Smithsonian Castle in the fog.
One lone protestor using solar cells to power his computer.
Military practice standing along the parade route. All services were there.
Posing with the Lone Sailor. It looks like he's part of the gabfest.
Oh, look, it's another POTUS
One nutty thing. For the past 15 months they've been resodding and repairing the grassy part of the Mall near the Capitol. The fences are coming down just in time for the inauguration. One part of the restored section will be protected, but another part will be opened up just in time to be trampled by the crowds. Dumb.
