More than a year after Hurricane Sandy, the federal government is making approximately $3 billion available to affected transit systems to strengthen their resiliency.

Generally, DCist strives to provide the most enlightened swath of life in our nation’s capital that we can muster. But every once in a while, a story comes along that makes us blurt out in surprise: What the actual fuck?

We had basically no snow in 2012, but Mother Nature more than made up for it by giving us an oddly hot and violently windy year.

Steve Lombardozzi is using his Natitude for a good cause.

While Hurricane Sandy largely spared New York’s Red Bull Arena, discussions are ongoing between the Red Bulls and D.C. United over their upcoming playoff series.

The Potomac River, swelled with rainfall from Hurricane Sandy, has started pouring on to Georgetown Waterfront Park, dragging a thick layer of muck and debris onto the boardwalk there.

At a press conference earlier this afternoon, Mayor Vince Gray led a round of applause for an entity many thought should never be deserving of such praise: Pepco.

President Obama made an unscheduled trip to the headquarters of the American Red Cross this afternoon to address recovery efforts in response to Hurricane Sandy.

Mayor Vince Gray announced today that the D.C. government, schools and early voting centers would open again tomorrow.

In D.C., Bloomingdale, the one place everyone expected to be mired in murky, post-storm depths stayed above water. Instead the most exciting thing to happen to the neighborhood was that horse mask guy.