Photo courtesy NOAA/NASA GOES Project.

Well, well, well — the tables certainly appear to have turned in D.C.’s favor this winter. First, we got to rub it in the faces of New York politicians who mocked our response to overwhelming snow. Now, it’s time to dip into the sweet schadenfreude yet again, as Chicago suffers through the latest big storm to hit the United States this winter.

Chicagoans didn’t provide quite the choral criticism of their winter-tough New York brethren when a snowstorm hit the District in 2009. But the prominence of the Chicago transplant who did level such comments trumped mere numbers. From a White House pool report, filed on January 28, 2009 by Washington Times correspondent Jon Ward:

POTUS said he wanted to talk about something unrelated to the economy. “Can I make a comment unrelated to the economy?” — and launched into weather remarks (please check transcript): “My children’s school was canceled today, because of what? Some ice,” he said, and all at the table started laughing.

“As my children pointed out, in Chicago school is never canceled,” he said, joking about how kids go out for recess on snow days. More laughter.

POTUS said he would have to instill “some flinty Chicago toughness” into Washingtonians.

“When it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don’t seem to be able to handle things,” POTUS said. Fighting words!

Yeah, so how’s that instillation going, Mr. President? I realize that it was more than two years ago when Obama said that — and in the period since, he’s come to embrace our silly love affair with snowstorm terminology and extend federal aid to us when big winter storms hit. But, you’ll have to excuse me for pointing out that the “flinty Chicago toughness” the President spoke of then isn’t currently stopping Windy City residents from being stranded in their cars on area highways (hmm, that sounds familiar). Oh, right, and the city canceled school today.

Although we do have to give credit where it’s due: Blizzaster is a pretty solid winter storm moniker.