The weather might have you thinking that spring will never arrive, even though winter technically doesn’t even start until tomorrow. (Yeah, it’s a downer, man.)…
In case you missed it on Friday, DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee turned down a potentially sizable performance-based bonus, according to a report from the Post’s Bill Turque. Rhee also turned down…
Metro just announced that they will be suspending Metrobus service at 7 p.m. tonight due to icy conditions on the roads. 22 lines had been running on limited schedules during the day today. WMATA…
It’s the big question of the day: what’s actually open for those of us who have been stuck inside all day and are suffering from serious cabin fever? DCist…
The helpful weatherpeople at the Capital Weather Gang are certainly qualified to conduct this poll of public opinion about what the great snowstorm of December ‘09 shall be dubbed. Obviously,…
It’s no longer snowing outside DCist headquarters, and a hefty dose of sunshine is doing some good work — but boy, is there still plenty of white stuff…
So much for waiting out this blizzard while browsing framed masterpieces in a tourist-free setting. According to a news blast on its website, all Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo will be…

ernamarcus brings us this vision of snowpocalypse come to life on the 3700 block of Ingomar Street NW in upper Northwest. I can’t say I approve of the “walking down the middle of…
We called it inevitable earlier today, but Metro has finally decided to halt running trains above ground at 1 p.m. due to snow accumulation. The service…

Photo courtesy WMATA.
Metrorail and Metrobus are experiencing heavy delays due to the weather, though that was kind of a no-brainer. Metrorail is currently running on 10 to 12…
Oh, so you have airline tickets good for travel this weekend? Uh, yeah, about that: NBC’s Ann Curry — yeah, I like Ann Curry, let it be — tweets an NBC News report that United Airlines will…
While DCist film critic extraordinaire Ian Buckwalter was out and about this morning, he captured this video of a Metrobus fishtailing in a futile attempt to get up the incline…
Adrian Fenty is asking if those of you who are out there braving the elements could please come inside now.
“With the storm upgraded to a Blizzard [Ed. Note: a…

Interested in keeping an eye on the District’s purveyors of plow? Curious as to whether or not you’ll be walking on a cleared road after making the startling realization that there’s…

Illustration by Martin Austermuhle
Oh, poor Davy DCist. All he wanted was to join the rest of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in their breathless frenzy for basic sundries….




