the commute into d.c. all but impossible. i had to strap on cross-country skis just to break out of my neighborhood where many drifts are running chest high. well, you can see how getting out of the neighborhood's going to be tough at best. my skis are being buried in the snow. and they're not real trail breaking skis. so i'm going to keep slogging down this hill up here. then a bunch of uphills to go to maybe make to it the metro about three miles from here. the snow has closed schools, offices, museums, even some white house staff members are working from home. the weight of the snow has caused some roofs to collapse including one at a smithsonian storage facility. overburdened trees have broken, taking down power lines and leaving tens of thousands without electricity at various times since the snows began. we were without power for four days. you can see how buried a lot of