As an improvement to my musings in How To Brick A School Bus, Data Science Helps Park It (Part 2), have you considered tailgating on the Washington DC Beltway on January 20, 2017?
Joe Cahn, The Commissioner of tailgating, has numerous tips, recipes and suggestions at Tailgating.com, saying on the homepage:
I look forward to sharing our common ideas of tailgating food, family, country, and hopefully meeting you whether it be at a concert, NASCAR race, or the Super Bowl as I travel the parking lots researching and cataloging my annual travels of your favorite sporting event. Whether it be a media tour or just sitting in a hot tube in front of the stadium the commissioner of tailgating wants to bring you the fan all the LATEST TAILGATING TRENDS, WHERE FANS CAN COME TOGETHER TO SHARE, FIND, AND LEARN ABOUT TAIGATING FROM THE COMMISHIONER OF TAILGATING while I continue with my celebration of winners. How about those Black Hawks winning their 3rd Stanly Cup, any photo’s you can share? I’d like you to submit them, and I’ll get them posted right away. Did you say Triple Crown Winner, share your story, send a photo, take my poll and enjoy the one thing we all have in common tailgating the last great American Social.
Combine protesting with the all-American social tradition of tailgating on the Beltway January 20, 2017.
Tailgating requires more cooperation by a group of drivers, plus buses carrying protesters, to create entirely blocked areas for protesters to disembark and tailgaters to setup their grills, tables, etc. Safety of your tailgaters and protesters being a primary concern.
Once you have established a tailgating/protest area, invite other drivers join. Live music is too much to ask but you could use generators and sound equipment.
Sports teams talk about their tailgate parties, you have the opportunity to create the most dispersed tailgate party in the history of tailgate parties!
Weather
As of today, WeatherTAB is predicting for January 20, 2017, a 20% chance of rain/snow, high temperature 34 to 44 F, low temperature 14 to 24 F, no wind predictions.
Take appropriate cold weather precautions, dress in layers, use buses as warming stations, etc. Post on social media to get advice from Redskins fans on tailgating in cold weather.
Timing
The inauguration proper is set to begin around NOON, EST so if you are going to impede traffic flow with out of gas cars and tailgating parties, best to start 8:30 – 9:00 AM to have the maximum impact on attendance. Much earlier than that and you may be cleared away, although that effort will further impede traffic flow as well.
Misc.
Did you know that potential protesters are the biggest concern of inauguration planners? I kid you not: Inaugural planners’ biggest concern: Protesters.
You have already set a world record and the event is thirty-five (35) days out!
The details on street closures don’t appear until about ten days before the inauguration but I will post links new inauguration data as it appears.
PS: Be sure to ask for comfortable cold weather clothing as holiday presents. You will be needing it.