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Showing Original Post only (View all)My wife got kicked out of work today... [View all]
The Federal Government ordered everyone in Washington to go home because of a forecast for.....1/2 in of snow.
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Both my son & DIL work for the State Department. I'm glad they won't have to make their commute
tblue37
Jan 2020
#9
Whew. For a minute I thought it might be because of her spouse posting on DU........
still_one
Jan 2020
#10
Nodding my head. We lived in Alexandria back in the 60's and coming from the NorthEast we
GemDigger
Jan 2020
#11
The residual snow/black ice in front of my garage has been there since Thanksgiving...
hlthe2b
Jan 2020
#14
I was living in the Washington, DC area back in 1972. That February we had a surprise storm dump
Elwood P Dowd
Jan 2020
#23
Good idea. I lived in DC for a few years and 1/2 inch of snow can bring about chaos on the roads.
dgauss
Jan 2020
#25
All the lazy bureaucrats & pencil pushers in DC draining the government.
appalachiablue
Jan 2020
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