Washington Snowfall

The first significant winter storm of the season unleashed dangerous road conditions, snarled air travel and shuttered schools in the nation's capital Sunday, where deserted streets and snow-capped buildings served as a fitting image for a federal government shutdown that was stretching into its fourth week.

A major winter storm that is expected to spare most of the Washington, D.C., region is blanketing areas south of the nation's capital and disrupting road, air and rail travel.

What happened in the back yard of many Americans last month was not at all representative of the experience elsewhere in the world.

Major US East Coast cities struggled on Monday to return to normal following a massive weekend blizzard that dropped about two feet (60.96 cm) of snow on New York and Washington and left 30 people dead.

Another round of wintry weather battered the U.S. Midwest and East Coast on Saturday.

The first winter snowfall of the season slowed US government operations on Tuesday but did not bring them to a standstill, with Congress, the Supreme Court and financial regulators meeting for business as usual.

A major snowstorm blanketed the Appalachian Mountains on Wednesday, leaving 150,000 homes and business in nine states without power, but Washington got mostly rain after officials had shut down the U.S. capital as the storm approached.

The first significant winter storm of the season unleashed dangerous road conditions, snarled air travel and shuttered schools in the nation's capital Sunday, where deserted streets and snow-capped buildings served as a fitting image for a federal government shutdown that was stretching into its fourth week.

A major winter storm that is expected to spare most of the Washington, D.C., region is blanketing areas south of the nation's capital and disrupting road, air and rail travel.

What happened in the back yard of many Americans last month was not at all representative of the experience elsewhere in the world.

Major US East Coast cities struggled on Monday to return to normal following a massive weekend blizzard that dropped about two feet (60.96 cm) of snow on New York and Washington and left 30 people dead.

Another round of wintry weather battered the U.S. Midwest and East Coast on Saturday.

The first winter snowfall of the season slowed US government operations on Tuesday but did not bring them to a standstill, with Congress, the Supreme Court and financial regulators meeting for business as usual.

A major snowstorm blanketed the Appalachian Mountains on Wednesday, leaving 150,000 homes and business in nine states without power, but Washington got mostly rain after officials had shut down the U.S. capital as the storm approached.