On top of having to oversee a massive snow removal operation, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty now also to worry about his political standing in the midst of the region’s largest winter storm in decades. Yesterday on Hardball, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews took Fenty to task for the city’s response to the storm, going so far as to hope out loud that the mayor will be replaced in the coming Democratic primary. “We’ve got a very…

From the press release: During a morning press conference District officials announced crews had been asked to pull to the side of the roadways as white out conditions were in effect during the ongoing snow storm. This is a temporary measure. Snow operations have not been suspended. All crews are still out working and on roadways….

Via reader extraordinaire IMGoph comes this image of snowpocalyptic destruction. The pic was snapped by Roofwalkers; IMG seems to believe the image is a scene from I-270. Many on Twitter are saying that snowplows on the ground are light, despite the early forecast that snow would fall today. DCist can’t confirm where this accident has taken place at this time, but the traffic looks grim along I-270 — and most of northern D.C. So…