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by Katie Pyzyk — January 17, 2013 at 10:00 am 47 Comments

Low Water Pressure Issues Continue — Residents in parts of Lyon Park, Buckingham, Douglas Park, Nauck, Arlington Ridge and Crystal City may experience low water pressure this morning due to various water issues. According to Arlington’s Department of Environmental Services, yesterday’s break in a 30-inch water main at Arlington Blvd and S. Irving Street is isolated and awaiting parts for additional repair work. Several water leaks also have been reported this morning at S. Stafford Street and 16th Road S., 26th Street S. and 26th Place S., and 31st Street S. and S. Woodrow Street.

Protein Bar Opens in Two Weeks — According to its Twitter feed, the new Protein Bar restaurant is set to open at 800 N. Glebe Road in Ballston on Wednesday, January 30. The restaurant will start serving its healthy food at 11:00 a.m.

MLK Tribute Speaker Changed — The keynote speaker for Arlington’s 44th Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been changed. Lehigh University Professor and Hip Hop Scholars, LLC founder Dr. James Braxton Peterson will now speak at the event, which takes place this Sunday, January 20, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Washington-Lee High School (1301 N. Stafford Street). The former speaker, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, can no longer attend due to a scheduling conflict, according to the county.

South Side Chris

Water pressure has been low in Fairlington Villages too for a last couple days.
- FrenchyB
  
  Reminds me of this scene from The Naked Gun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvXSwDp9nu4
Piker Shorts

Everyone loves to forget that MLK was a communist
- Hee-Haw
  
  what’s your point ?
  - CourthouseChris
    
    There is no point to be had here. In their mind any progressive social or economic stance is “communism”, which makes the word itself meaningless in the context and clearly marks their argument as reactionary and poorly thought through.
    - drax
      
      And even if he was a communist (which he wasn’t), so what? He was still a hero who did more for America than any of the pathetic whiners who call him one.
- Dyker Longs
  
  MLK was a communist the same way Obama is a socialist. You know, because both are black.
  - MC 703
    
    Ha! It’s sad but there is an element of truth to that.
  - Peter
    
    O is only half black.
    - Dick
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
      - Manti Te’o
        
        So I see. The one drop rule only applies to those with any African ancestry. And that’s why Tiger Woods isn’t the greatest Asian golfer ever. Cuz we don’t like Asians.
    - ACDC Hack
      
      “O is only half black”
      
      That is why he is only a socialist and not a Communist !!
      
      Geeze, do I have to explain everything !!!
gospelsinger

so glad for Protein Bar – the menu looks excellent! very healthy choices
Alex

Low water pressure is annoying, but why does Arlington supply very high water pressure to some residences? I’m getting 85 PSI regularly. Just a hair below where one would start having water hammer issues and plumbing damage. Average PSI should be 55 – 65 I think?
- John Fontain
  
  If the pressure bothers you, press the stop button.
bobco85

In Buckingham, the water pressure was a little better than yesterday but is still lower than normal.
- Buckingham Bandit
  
  You’re telling me…
drax

Did anyone notice that The Weather Channel is naming winter storms like hurricanes now? This one is “Iago.”
- gospelsinger
  
  Yes – it is pronounced ee-ah-go. At least it can help us remember and refer to the “storm” better. Otherwise I think I forget the storms that come and go.
  - jackson
    
    This storm is going to make false claims to Othello about his friend sleeping with his wife.
  - DarkHeart
    
    I have my fingers crossed for Jeroboam to be next.
  - Josh S
    
    I’m guessing you are a Weather Channel plant.
    Or you’re being sarcastic.
    We got along perfectly fine for centuries without naming winter storms – there is no reason to start now – it’s nothing more than a marketing ploy.
    Unfortunately, big media being an echo chamber and full of spineless “me too” thinkers, I suspect it won’t be long before everyone follows suit.
    - JMB
      
      As a Dominion Power customer, I’d like to start naming power outages.
      - ACDC Hack
        
        “I’d like to start naming power outages.”
        
        Yes, but this is a “family” blog……
    - jackson
      
      “Snowpocalypse,” anyone? At any rate, at least it’s not something deserving of a full-on ragefest, and for that I’m grateful not to take a side at all.
      - WeiQiang
        
        Snow-torious B.I.G.
    - drax
      
      I’m sure the Weather Channel has plants all over the Internet.
South Awwlington

Random question: read several times on this list about the reporting prowess of Arlington Mercury yet it seems that their website is updated at MOST weekly. What gives? News? Not so much,
- Herndon Hag
  
  Anything is better than the Capital Weather Gang.
  - Hee-Haw
    
    Why would you say that ? They are more often right and pretty much nailed this storm as being overhyped, yesterday.
    - Herndon Hag
      
      Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. If you read the CWGs forecast in the print edition in the morning, it is right about 20% of the time…awful odds if you ask me.
      - Hee-Haw
        
        When it comes to precipitation, they are pretty good, better than any other local news source. What are you referring to ? Temperatures ? “Oh no, its 36 degrees outside, the CWG said it would be 37 ! They are so wrong !! “
      - BBMS
        
        They are DC centric. The NWS has to issue a regional type outlook and so they had to say it might snow as much as 5 inches because the particular region they are addressing might see that much. Then CWG freaks out and says there’s no way it will snow 5 inches on U Street, then later they quietly tweet that the upper level of snow could be 3-6 inches.
      - Hee-Haw
        
        Again, they nailed it yesterday…
        http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/winter-storm-watch-for-dc-area-thursday-and-thursday-night/2013/01/16/dec13f28-5ffa-11e2-b05a-605528f6b712_blog.html
      - drax
        
        I only see them consistently saying this storm will produce very little. No mention of 3-6 inches.
        
        http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang
      - BBMS
        
        They tweeted 3-6 as an upper limit yesterday evening. They also increased their snow index or whatever overnight. So they underestimated, NWS overestimated, and this morning’s updates met in the middle with the corrections. Happy, pappy?
      - Glebe Roader
        
        This is what I took away from the Capital Weather Gang’s post from 3:33pm yesterday:
        
        “Little to no snow accumulation is more likely than over 1 inch of snow for most of the Washington, D.C. metro area.”
        
        As they do, they discussed the different models predicting more or less snow. They said there is less than a 10% chance of getting that 5+ inches the NWS “warned” us about.
      - drax
        
        “upper limit”
      - Reston Rag
        
        Capital Weather Gang is awesome, and very hipster dudes too.
        
        The government is terrible at their weather forecasting. They should not even be doing it if they are so bad. I say shut them down and save some money. If you can not get your forecast right, it is a waste of taxpayer money.
      - drax
        
        Reston Rag,
        
        Have you met Dick Chrysler?
        
        He’s the idiot congressman who suggested we get rid of the NWS because we have the Weather Channel–not knowing that the Weather Channel gets all its data from the NWS.
        
        If you think weather prediction is not necessary, fine. Don’t think anyone else is going to have the satellites and radar and computers to do it any better than NWS.
    - Greg
      
      I agree. Their page on the Post site is by far the best local source for weather.
      - Glebe Roader
        
        Also agree. They discuss, in detail, WHY they are making a particular forecast.
Dr. Dolitte

There’s a link from James Braxton Peterson’s bio that indicates he’s a Dr. just like the other guy, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson. So why isn’t he being billed as Dr.?
- ARLnow.com
  
  It was accidentally omitted. Added now.
Lauren

Water pressure was also very low in Barcroft.
WeiQiang

Water pressure was fine in SARWOK+ at the bottom of the Ridge this morning … guess the folks up on the Ridge itself are having problems, what with physics and all.
dras

Is SARWOK+ near CoPi?

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