Comments on: Two miles of cheers http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/01/20/two-miles-of-cheers/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:52:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: spacemika http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/01/20/two-miles-of-cheers/comment-page-1/#comment-434 spacemika Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:33:10 +0000 http://www.webfoot.com/blog/?p=492#comment-434 So, the inauguration was classified as an Emergency before it even started. It was the first time in US history that a State of Emergency was declared pre-emptively, and it was the first time that a presidential inauguration was classified as an Emergency. Sources: http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=47284 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011301583.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/us/politics/14emergency.html?_r=1&ref=politics (I got it via the Natural Hazards newsletter) So, the inauguration was classified as an Emergency before it even started. It was the first time in US history that a State of Emergency was declared pre-emptively, and it was the first time that a presidential inauguration was classified as an Emergency.

Sources:
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=47284
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011301583.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/us/politics/14emergency.html?_r=1&ref=politics
(I got it via the Natural Hazards newsletter)

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