<p>Federal government offices in Washington would remain closed for the second consecutive day today as people struggled yesterday to get to work. Despite pressing into service emergency operations and working round the clock since Friday, officials were not able to clear the snow form major roads and areas, thus making driving on road a public hazard.<br /><br />Life has come to standstill since the blizzard hit the region on Friday -- worst snowfall in this part of the country since.<br /><br />Thousands of people are living without electricity since then as power lines were damaged in several areas. Even as the area has not yet recovered from the storm that left record amounts of snow over the weekend, the National Weather Service yesterday evening issued another snow storm warning for today predicting 10 to 20 inches of additional snow with strong winds and hazardous travel conditions. <br /><br />Schools of the region immediately announced that they will remain closed for one more day. The US Office of Personnel Management announced federal holiday today.<br />The metro has been running part of its underground service. All the three airports near the capital were open, but none of them were running to their full capacity, because of which a large number of flights were cancelled.<br /><br />While the Ronald Reagan National Airport did not reopen its main runway until 10 am yesterday; two runways were still unusable at Washington Dulles International and Baltimore International airports reopened one runway on Sunday night.<br /><br />Pepco, which provides electricity to Washington and adjoining areas said 41,000 homes and businesses out of a total of 775,000 customers were still without power yesterday morning.<br /><br />At one point of time, just after the storm, the number of customers in its service area without power peaked at 105,000. In several neighbourhoods, which remained cut off from rest part of the city since the weekend's snowstorm, people greeted and cheered as snow-removal workers arrived to clean up the roads on a sunny Monday.</p>
<p>Federal government offices in Washington would remain closed for the second consecutive day today as people struggled yesterday to get to work. Despite pressing into service emergency operations and working round the clock since Friday, officials were not able to clear the snow form major roads and areas, thus making driving on road a public hazard.<br /><br />Life has come to standstill since the blizzard hit the region on Friday -- worst snowfall in this part of the country since.<br /><br />Thousands of people are living without electricity since then as power lines were damaged in several areas. Even as the area has not yet recovered from the storm that left record amounts of snow over the weekend, the National Weather Service yesterday evening issued another snow storm warning for today predicting 10 to 20 inches of additional snow with strong winds and hazardous travel conditions. <br /><br />Schools of the region immediately announced that they will remain closed for one more day. The US Office of Personnel Management announced federal holiday today.<br />The metro has been running part of its underground service. All the three airports near the capital were open, but none of them were running to their full capacity, because of which a large number of flights were cancelled.<br /><br />While the Ronald Reagan National Airport did not reopen its main runway until 10 am yesterday; two runways were still unusable at Washington Dulles International and Baltimore International airports reopened one runway on Sunday night.<br /><br />Pepco, which provides electricity to Washington and adjoining areas said 41,000 homes and businesses out of a total of 775,000 customers were still without power yesterday morning.<br /><br />At one point of time, just after the storm, the number of customers in its service area without power peaked at 105,000. In several neighbourhoods, which remained cut off from rest part of the city since the weekend's snowstorm, people greeted and cheered as snow-removal workers arrived to clean up the roads on a sunny Monday.</p>
