Things went from bad to worse for D.C. United Sunday evening at RFK, as the black and red fell to the Philadelphia Union, sinking further into the Eastern Conference basement.

The D.C. Emergency Management Agency reports (via the AlertDC text service) that the city will pre-treat roads in advance of a storm expected early on the morning of New Year’s Eve — a storm that will close out the last day of 2009 with an awful wintery mix. District Department of Transportation and Department of Public Works will suspend leaf-collection services on Thursday so that the crews can mount plows and salt spreaders on the…