The federal government offices in Washington, D.C. were closed yesterday. It is the second time this winter that federal offices have been closed. The snowstorm that caused it this time came north after devastating the southern coastal states from Georgia on up. At last count sixteen deaths had been attributed to this storm.
As can be seen in the pre and post-dawn photos above, we received a foot or more of snow and it continued to come down heavily into the afternoon. There were virtually no cars on the road except a rare driver that, as Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia said, must have had his/her "stupid hat on" yesterday.
The only sound outside was the sibilant fall of snow as it hit the pine needles and few dead leaves still clinging to the oak trees. The only movement was an occasional bird leaving some shelter looking for the feeders.
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All photographs by the author.
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Copyright 2014, John D. Tew
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