Come out big today guys. I'll be at my local event.

Top signs I've seen so far:

Too many WRONGS to list here

Mike Pence has never satisfied a woman in his life.

Favorite signs from today

On one side of my sign I had "My other sign is a ballot". Not as catchy but whatev.

The first 3.5 hours of the march were torture. No marching, just standing listening to speeches, most of which couldn't be heard anyway. I would have gotten out and walked around last year with my older daughter, but this year my more socially nervous younger daughter was set against going through the crowd. By the end everyone more or less hated life and the speakers.

We recovered after the short march got going and then we could walk around and sit or whatever. A Sikh group gave out free food and chai which was cool. It was a big crowd. Organizers say 350k. It could be that many. I never got any full view of everyone.

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Just got home... What an awesome experience! Maybe I'll post some thoughts later and a couple signs I grabbed pictures of, although I didn't get all of the good ones - there were so many.

In addition to some of the expected/obvious stuff, it was just a good feeling with everything that's gone on in America in the last couple of years to be standing in the middle of such a huge mass of humanity and know that there were zero deplorables present... to be in the company of so many good people was a great feeling. No racists, no sexists, no bigots.

Amazing what heroes people think they are

Essence of a reactionary here. Or maybe "ahole" is the right word.

I didn't get to go on the parade... instead I attended a wake in downtown Dago at the same time. Folks on the trolley coming and going were over the top positive about the event. Several at the wake did do the parade and said that (only here & anecdotally) there were more folks out than the original.

Who are these idiots walking onto the frozen Reflecting Pool? That doesn't seem safe. DC locals are morons when it come to cold weather.

18"-30" deep. Not much mortal danger. And it's been super cold right? Aren't you out skating on ponds?

30" deep in semi-frozen water seems like a good way to lose a few toes. DC/NOVA is sort of famous for being full of people from out of town, many of whom have never lived anywhere where it gets cold and have no idea how to drive on icy roads or why you shouldn't try walking across ponds when it's ~30 degrees.

They kept announcing over the speakers not to walk on the ice and reminding people that it was ~50 degrees yesterday and it wouldn't hold up, but they kept doing it. Most seemed to be going for the perfect photo right out in the middle...

I didn't see it break on anyone, but my cousin said she saw some guy have his foot go through, and then each subsequent step the force on the next step would drive that foot through until he got from the middle to the side....

One kid was running down the ice, then sliding as far as he could on his feet. I was waiting for the inevitable, but it never happened, thankfully.

Lose a few toes? I guess if you can't go to Starbucks within 10 minutes. I've swum in ice water. Not pleasant, but I didn't lose any body parts. I guarantee you that your drive to the event is more dangerous than walking on the shallow pond there in the middle of a million people on a warmish day in the middle of a city holding a waterproof credit card.

Even at the peaceful women's march the biggest danger going out on the ice was probably that a cop tells you to come out and then bashes your head in.

The primary danger of walking on ice isn't falling through, it's having your feet go out from under you, falling flat on your back, getting the wind knocked out of you, and possibly getting concussed when your noggin slams into the ice.

Ok, but that goes for the sidewalk too. You guys play on the ice, right? When I lived in icy areas as a kid I sure did, and I still do when I get the chance. Living with deadly cold year after year causes a lot of trauma for some of you arctic dwellers. I have a friend from Wisconsin who has a PTSD episode whenever it gets close to freezing. But maybe my impression is just biased by the large sample of people who fled the cold.

Nah, sidewalks are almost never slippery like that. Falling on your ass and smacking your head on the ice is almost exclusively a frozen body of water thing. We learn at a young age that you don't walk on the ice, you kind of shuffle and slide your way along. If you try to pick your foot up you're begging to get concussed.

I made sure my kids wore helmets when ice skating, especially the one who always manages to get hurt no matter what she's doing. One time when we were ice skating a middle aged lady fell back and left a blood spot on the ice. Pretty disturbing. Still, I'd be out on the reflecting pool and taking my chances 100% guaranteed.

My sister in law just broke her arm falling on ice in Seattle a couple weeks ago.

I'm up in Alaska now. Don't think I've lifted my feet since I've been here.

Jesus what a ****ing snowflake!

I recall a pretty spectacular slip and fall on an icy sidewalk I took maybe 10 years ago. My feet were probably briefly abive my head. The guy who saw me suggested I sue, but I was fortunate to get away with a bruise on my hip.

a year or two ago i slipped coming down some icy steps outside my parents' house and my feet flew out from under me like a cartoon character stepping on a banana peel, i swear my feet were higher up than my head at one point. landed on the bottom two steps and the impact was so great that my first thought was to make sure i could still feel/move my legs and my back wasnt broken.

A year or two ago I had a similar fall and hit my back on the corner of a concrete step. It still hurts sometimes. I was playing catch, jumped up to catch a ball and my dog (german shepherd) ran under and swept out my legs.

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Busting your ass on icy sidewalks is something every adult in the upper midwest has experienced at some point.

Poorly directed downspouts. Wet weather followed by an evening deep freeze. The worst is when you combine the two above with a slight incline and you find it literally impossible to make progress. This is usually found near building entrances slightly sunken from street level. You gotta use the handrail to make any progress.

Over here in New England we have discovered the miracles of sand and salt. Maybe you guys will figure it out one day too.