Residents of Washington DC-area are fuming as nearly 20 schools remain closed over snow-clogged streets a week after Winter Storm Fern slammed the region.
The DMV-area was rocked by last week’s blizzard, which cemented Virginia in ice and buried DC and Maryland in mountains of snow — for the first time since last January. Prior to that, the southern tip of the Mid-Atlantic region hadn’t seen snow in years, leaving local officials scrambling to clear the streets.
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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, cheekily dubbed the remaining mountains of sleet “snowcrete” because it’s proven so difficult to remove.
The city is using the shuttered RFK Stadium campus and Carter Theatre Amphitheater as dumping grounds, she said in a post on X.
Eighteen public school systems in the DMV and all DC public charter schools were either closed or enforcing delayed starts on Monday.