Washington D.C. and its federal offices are closing down due to a major winter storm that hit the Southeast and is moving up the East Coast.
The White House is covered in snow. The photo was taken by Andrew Harnik.
The Associated Press.
The National Weather Service predicted that some areas would get up to 12 inches of snow.
Baltimore, Philadelphia, and parts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia are expected to get snow.
The Office of Personnel Management said late Sunday that federal offices in the capital would be closed Monday and that non-emergency workers would generally be granted leave.
D.C. Public Schools were going to be closed Monday and Tuesday as part of a mass Covid testing effort, but have been pushed back to Thursday because of the storm.
The Associated Press reported that many Covid-19 testing and vaccination sites in Maryland and Virginia were closed as a result.
500,000. The number of customers without power was unknown as of early Monday, according to the AP.
The key background.
More than half the flights out of the D.C. area were delayed or canceled Monday. In New York City, a quarter of flights were delayed or canceled at its three major airports.
The federal offices in DC are closed because of the snow.
The DC area is expected to get 3 to 10 inches of snow.
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