Snow in the Capital

this is surely one of thousands of blog posts about the snowy weekend in DC, but I wanted to share some of the sweet snapshots I was able to take.
(i'm having trouble getting the captions in the right place, so i'll just number them below)
1. Near Eastern Market at about 10:30pm on Friday night. I would guess maybe 6 inches was on the ground at this point.
2. Saturday afternoon around 3pm. About 20 inches on the ground and still snowing steadily.
3. Smithsonian Metro Station.
4. the Korean War Memorial, which is eerie enough without the snow.

Forecast shows 4-10" more are coming tomorrow night! Yeesh.


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