Today was the first day since Winter Storm Fern back in office. The House is out of session, before people jump at government funding the House passed their bills and this recess was scheduled, meaning traffic is luckily lower than normal.
I have friends in Virginia who have still not gotten their roads plowed and now it’s sheets of ice. Here is what my walk looked like coming in.
In some places you can see they did not shovel and treat the sidewalks and based on what I could tell in some areas there are 6-8 inches of packed ice. DC has run out of places to put the sheets of ice now and so there is added danger in not being able to see the road from the sidewalk to cross.
I have no idea what the city is planning on doing as we will not be above freezing until maybe next Monday when we have a high of 33. Not to mention DC has a chance of snow both Saturday and Sunday.
While the airports are open the metro is running limited hours and capacity and moving around is still pretty dangerous in some areas. With the funding lapse upcoming it’s not looking good to be able to do anything. Getting House Members in would be a mess then getting them and staff to the Capitol even worse.
It’s such a mess.
Looks like a typical winter day where I'm from. I always approve of Congress taking days off, though.
Lol I made the early morning trek in. The Senate might make a real mess of stopping a partial government shutdown from occurring and that blows my mind. If it was the House that would make a ton of sense since the House is a dumpster fire floating down a river but the Senate for the second time in a row now might screw up government funding.
Things are getting pretty bad there.
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Yeah we are up over 200 million gallons they think. I am not sure if they have made any progress since the storm hit. Thankfully the break was below (down river) from where DC gets its drinking water.... that would have caused idk what wild chaos but a complete shit show (lol)
That looks pretty unpleasant. That frozen over stuff is the worst.
The last two photos are what really got me.... it looks like freaking glass I have never seen that before!