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Feb 08, 2010

Updated Forecast: In Excess of 8″ of Snow, Plus Wind

Photo by Cycle the Ghost Round Dear readers, I know you want us to quit telling you how it’s never gonna stop snowing, but we can’t control the National Weather Service (or the weather). The latest Winter Storm Watch is calling for a potential of more than 8 inches of snow, with “a good likelihood” of more than 10 inches. The timing is still roughly the same: it’ll start sometime Tuesday afternoon and continue…

Feb 08, 2010

Listen to DCist on WAMU at Noon

Our intrepid Editor-in-Chief, Sommer Mathis, is making her way from DCist HQ up to Tenleytown right now to sit down with Kojo Nnamdi at noon today. They’ll discuss the “digging out” efforts going on around town to recover from the weekend’s snow dump and how to prepare for the additional five inches we’ll be getting Tuesday. She’ll be joined by DDOT Director Gabe Klein, Pepco President Thomas Graham, and Isiah Leggett from Montgomery County….

Feb 08, 2010

There’s Politics Even in Snow Removal, It Seems

Mayor Adrian Fenty’s cleared street in Crestwood It’s an awkward truism of urban politics that a snowstorm can be the undoing of an elected official. Take too long to get the snowed cleared off the roads — like Marion Barry in 1987 when the city struggled for a week after a snowstorm, which he missed because he was in California at the Super Bowl — and you’re an out-of-touch executive leading an inefficient government….

 
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