NWS recommends staying indoors and to avoid driving underneath trees or in wooded areas.

Many were about HOUSE OF CARDS.

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.

Things are getting worse: the National Weather Service now reports that the Potomac River and Rock Creek could top their banks.

Photo by Chris Rief For a little while, it seemed as though Metro was going to brave the storm tomorrow and keep its trains running—even above ground, provide the wind speed remained below 50 miles per hour. But now, the transit agency is joining the rest of civilization in suspending its service as Hurricane Sandy whales down on the D.C. area. Metrorail and Metrobus service will continue running tonight, with the normal closing time…

The federal government announced this afternoon that it will be closed on Monday, October 29 due to Hurricane Sandy.

D.C. will be giving out up to five sandbags per car today at the Takoma Recreation Center in Northwest D.C.

The Bay Bridge—one of the world’s scariest spans—was closed last night and this morning when inspectors noticed unusual vertical motion.

I know that it got kind of buried yesterday, what with the earthquake hogging all the headlines and everything. But here’s your reminder — there’s a hurricane that’s still on path to affect the region this weekend.

It’s been a little while — about three years, in fact — since a hurricane actually made landfall on American soil, and about eight years since one even came close to the District. But this one looks like a real doozy: Hurricane Irene is crafting a path that appears to have it slicing right up through the Chesapeake Bay this weekend.