Hundreds of DC residents found a welcome break from the monotony of shoveling snow by hurling snowballs at friends and strangers in one one the half dozen or so mass snowball fights across Washington organized through social networking sites.
“Battle Snowpocalypse” took place on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, from noon to 3pm. “The Official Dupont Circle Snowball Fight” started at 2pm, as did the “Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill” snowball fight, shown here.