Crowds start early, metro packed at dawn

January 20, 2009 | beverlyfortune | Comments 0

People wanting to get the best seat – or standing room – for Tuesday’s inaugural events were up and out early in Washington D.C.

A little before 5 a.m., two photographers and I caught a subway from roughly the area of the zoo to come downtown to the McClatchy Washington Bureau. There was room on the train, but just barely as we squeezed on with camera bags and laptop cases.

A photogrpaher from the Fort Worth Star Telegram got on at about the same place where we started, but he was an early bird at 4:10 a.m. and had to wait for three trains before there was room to get on!

Weather is chilly, but so far, not the bone-chilling wind and snow everyone has been braced for.

- Beverly Fortune