Flickr user valkyrieh116 added this striking comparison to the DCist pool. Nicely done. From the Flickr caption : “this is my back patio. it faces a narrow alley and gets significantly less snow than out on the street, but it was the only place that wasn’t shoveled regularly.” Washington...

Photo by marciadc Not exactly a shock, but WMATA has released its Metrorail ridership figures for the recent winter storm period, and yesterday saw the lowest number of rides in the system in recent years. Only 36,097 trips were taken on Wednesday, Feb. 10, smashing the previous record low of only 56,326,...

Photo by Mr. T in DC Pair of updates on bus service for you. First, a limited number of Metrobus routes started running again as of 1 p.m. Those routes are listed below the jump. Metro is urging riders to exercise cautioun when boarding and alighting buses, as there’s still tons of snow piled...

Photo by Shaun Barrows The U.S. Postal Service is attempting full collection and delivery throughout the Metro area today, even though many roads are still impassable. “We will do our best to provide service,” spokesperson Deborah Yackley said via email. Some retail post office locations...

Diana Vishneva, Mariinsky Ballet The Mariinsky Ballet returned to the Kennedy Center Opera House on Tuesday night for a run of performances of its classic production of The Sleeping Beauty . Classic can also be a nice way of saying tired, and this choreography by Marius Petipa, updated by Konstantine...

On top of having to oversee a massive snow removal operation, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty now also to worry about his political standing in the midst of the region’s largest winter storm in decades. Yesterday on Hardball , MSNBC’s Chris Matthews took Fenty to task for the city’s response...

Photo by Flickr user rjv541 . As the snow totals have been steadily piling up, we’ve all been thinking that we can’t remember ever seeing this much snow in D.C. before. Well, now it’s official: no one has seen this much snow in D.C., at least not since Pat Collins ‘ great-great-granddad...

Photo by swkaplan We’ve received a couple of emails from people who say they watched a woman get arrested early this morning during an impromptu snowball fight outside Wonderland Ballroom in Columbia Heights (at 11th and Kenyon NW). We’re trying to get confirmation from MPD on this. One...

From U.S. Postal Service spokesperson Deborah Yackley: We have suspended delivery and collection for today. There was limited retail but it is all closing down at 11 a.m. We don’t know about tomorrow yet. Continued here: USPS: Mail Services Are Suspended

No! Photo by drtana See the rest here: Should You Go Out During this Blizzard?