After five days wading through two or more feet of snow, Washingtonians have a new element to battle– gusting winds. The area is under a Blizzard warning until 7pm EST Wednesday. That’s sending the falling snow coming in sideways and whipping up the piles already on the ground.
The Capital Building is nearly empty after the House and Senate closed along with the rest of the federal government in the DC area. The snowplows have run out of places to dump their snow and have started to pile it up near the Senate reflecting pool, making a dirty, brown pile of snow in a park usually filled with tourists.