We both work off the Navy Yard metro station so we're Metro dependent to get to work. When DC gets more than 8" of snow, Metro goes underground as in they don't service above ground stations.
This is what the service map looks like in that situation:
See how so much of the map has been greyed out?
Here's one that shows where we start and end our commute:
See how most of the yellow line is greyed out and doesn't connect to anything that isn't?
Yeah, that means we can't get to work.
And I haven't even mentioned that they haven't been running our buses to get to Metro in the first place. In the brief moments that the Fairfax County Connector buses have been running, they have only been running on limited Saturday or Sunday snow schedule. This means that they are hardly running and they don't come into the neighborhood - we'd have to walk out to the main road to catch the bus.
As for why they keep closing the Federal Government, we think it's somewhat dependent on Metro's status because so many federal workers use Metro to get to work. It becomes a safety concern because if people can't Metro that puts more people out on the roads which isn't a good idea.
We will begin Day 4 tomorrow.
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