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Traffic Mess, Bridge Closings -- Get Out of D.C. during Inauguration

<img title="Inauguration 2009" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN-LEFT: 6px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 6px" height="424" alt="Inauguration 2009" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/5/4/6/8/5/ar123142351658645.jpg" width="283" />Inauguration Week is less than 2 weeks away.  For people who supported Barack Obama, January 20th will bring exhiliration, excitement and optimism.  For those who voted for McCain/Palin, this month's Inauguration will likely bring about different feelings.  For anyone who lives in the D.C. area, one thing is for certain, Inauguration Week will bring frustration, confusion, and traffic jams! Top and center, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/08/inauguration-nightmare-bridges-to-nowhere/" target="_blank">today's Washington Times</a> reported that for security measures, the Secret Service made the unprecedented announcement that they will shut down all bridges crossing from Virginia into the District of Columbia and establish a "security perimeter that closes or limits vehicular access on 100 city streets." In addition, on Inauguration Day, "only authorized vehicles will be permitted to travel north on Interstate 395 and east on Interstate 66 inside the Capital Beltway." With the expectations of millions of people coming to town for the celebrations, this will make everyday life, travel, and commuting difficult.  For those of us who sell <a href="http://www.brianblock.com/" target="_blank">real estate within the Capital Beltway</a> (that's me) this will be impossible.  <img title="Sunny Puerto Vallarta" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-LEFT: 6px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 6px" height="166" alt="Sunny Puerto Vallarta" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/4/0/8/1/3/ar123142363731804.jpg" width="124" /> So, what's the solution?  Personally, I'm skipping town.  This is the perfect time for a vacation to somewhere warm.  So I'm heading down for a week in <a href="http://www.visitpuertovallarta.com/" target="_blank">Puerto Vallarta, Mexico</a> -- away from the cold and away from the traffic.Don't worry.  Before I leave next Friday and after I return on the 23rd of January, I'll be around to help you with all of your <a href="http://www.brianblock.com/" target="_blank">real estate needs in Northern Virginia or D.C.</a>If you want to skip town too, check out <a href="http://www.lastminute.com/" target="_blank">LastMinute.com</a> and see if you can find any travel deals. 10 application/xml false 2009 barack obama barack obama inauguration brian block closings due to inauguration d.c. real estate dc road closings inauguration inauguration bridge closings inauguration road closings inauguration week january 20th lastminute.com mexico northern virginia real estate northern virginia real estate blog puerto vallarta road closings in dc for inauguration road closings inauguration road closings virginia inauguration washington times Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; IEMB3; IEMB3) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 bblock 68.55.5.194 false true false false true 205801 false false true false false false true 224049 Resource 205801 173239 161269 1232378847254 1232811364975 Controlled Your new customer base

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DC area real estate agent, eh?  You are lucky to be plying your trade in one of the only markets in the U.S. that's still got some activity.  Here's something to consider: as the republicans leave town and the democrats arrive en masse, no doubt looking for a place to live, you might want to get your nose out of the washington times and put on a happy face, or you're going to lose some good customers. 10 application/xml false Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 71.178.239.101 false true false false true 160154 blog blogsite/BrianBlock/web