At least when we lived in McLean, it worked like this: All the people who were high enough up to declare federal offices closed lived in D.C. proper, in places like Dupont Circle and Georgetown. The rest of the grunts lived out in the Virginia or Maryland suburbs. Since the big guys could get into the office (it never snows as much in DC as outside), they expected everyone else to do likewise. We had three major snowfalls in the year we lived there, and on only one of them was any sort of a "snow day" declared, and that only enough to allow federal workers to take vacation time -- they didn't actually get a free day.
I still remember Brian hiking rhough the snow with luggage to a major street because he was expected to go on a business trip and the taxi couldn't make it up our street. (He was flying out of National, which was open, rathern than Dulles, which was not.) Fortunately (well, not for me) he was out of town during one of the two other heavy snows (the one where the furnace died).
Snow days and the federal government....
At least when we lived in McLean, it worked like this: All the people who were high enough up to declare federal offices closed lived in D.C. proper, in places like Dupont Circle and Georgetown. The rest of the grunts lived out in the Virginia or Maryland suburbs. Since the big guys could get into the office (it never snows as much in DC as outside), they expected everyone else to do likewise. We had three major snowfalls in the year we lived there, and on only one of them was any sort of a "snow day" declared, and that only enough to allow federal workers to take vacation time -- they didn't actually get a free day.
I still remember Brian hiking rhough the snow with luggage to a major street because he was expected to go on a business trip and the taxi couldn't make it up our street. (He was flying out of National, which was open, rathern than Dulles, which was not.) Fortunately (well, not for me) he was out of town during one of the two other heavy snows (the one where the furnace died).