Heavy snowfall that hit the US capital city Vashintgon, have led to the closure of a number of government agencies. According to local authorities, about 230 thousand. Public servants will get the day off due to the rampant disaster, reports Associated Press. All employees were ordered to stay at home for security reasons. It also reported that the total damage caused by the closure of government agencies will be about $ 100 million. Per day.
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1. Man clearing sidewalk along Pratt Street the morning after a snowstorm in Baltimore, Maryland, on 7 February. (Carolyn Kaster / AP)
2. A woman clears snow from his car after a heavy snowfall in Chevy Chase, Maryland. (Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty Images)
3. The car slowly drove past the two trees broken by strong wind in Alexandria, Virginia February 6. (Cliff Owen / AP)
4. A member of the company «Pepco» trying to restore electricity in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP)
5. A man goes skiing in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images)
6. Two young men jumped into the back of his pickup truck, stopped at a traffic light, and built a snow fight outside Dupont Circle in Washington, DC on February 6. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
7. Snow tractor works at the airport Ronald Reagan Washington February 6. (Xinhua / Zuma Press)
8. People go down the escalator in the metro Dupont Circle during heavy snowfall in Washington on February 6. The city fell to a record amount of snow, meteorologists promise that rainfall in the region will continue. (Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images)
9. The workers clean the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue. (Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images)
10. Snow machines go on the off Interstate 695 in Parkville, Maryland. (Steve Ruark / AP)
11. Matt Carroll, owner of a small company in the market forex, helps Jake Hiatt Alexandria to leave the snow drifts in the center of the highway Interstate I-395 in Springfield, Virginia. (Cliff Owen / AP)
12. Snowfall in Ellicott City, Maryland. (Carolyn Kaster / AP)
13. robin looking for food around a snow-covered tree in Silver Spring, Maryland. (Jewel Samad / AFP - Getty Images)
14. Christine Benkoski rake snow in front of his home in Ellicott City. By lunchtime, in the suburbs of Washington has dropped to 71 cm of snow. Meteorologists say that the new snow can bring to the US capital a record amount of snow in the last 90 years. (Carolyn Kaster / AP)
15. Bright ribbons enclose space power line break as a result of strong snowstorm outside Alexandria, Virginia, February 6. More than 210,000 homes were without electricity in the county of Washington. (Cliff Owen / AP)
16. A broken branch of a tree blocked the street in Alexandria, Virginia, February 6. Strong storm went through the Mid-Atlantic United States on Saturday, immediately caused problems on the roads. (Cliff Owen / AP)
17. A couple walking on the snow past the monument to the victims of the Korean War to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on February 6. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP)
18. Snow falls in the territory of the US Capitol in Washington. US President Barack Obama, who decided to leave the White House for a meeting with the National Democratic Committee, called the storm "Snegarmageddon." (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
19. A woman walks along the Pennsylvania Avenue during a snowstorm in Washington. The National Weather Service has announced a storm warning in the Washington-Baltimore region until 10 pm on Saturday. (Richard Clement / Reuters)
20. A man digs a car in Manassas, Virginia. The storm and snowfall paralyzed traffic on the roads. (Karen Bleier / AFP - Getty Images)
21. Single pedestrian walking on Calvert Street during a snowfall in Baltimore on February 6. (Carolyn Kaster / AP)
22. An employee of the transport unit of Pennsylvania Edward Lindsay rake snow from stairs in the subway in Philadelphia on Feb. 6. (Jessica Kourkounis / AP)
23. Dave and Beth Donahue Lidinski walk their dogs in the snow Feb. 6 in Baltimore. (Gail Burton / AP)
24. Thomas Maldomado (left) pushes in front of the snow thrower near the Empire State Building February 6 in New York. (Caleb Jones / AP)
25. Kirk Jennings clears the track at his home during a snowfall in Washington on February 5. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP - Getty Images)
26. Workers clean the snow from the tracks in Washington on February 5. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)
27. In Falls Church, Virginia, snapped up bottled water for a few hours on February 5. (Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)
28. At the airport «BWI Thurgood Marshall» in Linthicum, Maryland, canceled flights. (Gail Burton / AP)
29. The United States Capitol snowed February 5. (Tim Sloan / AFP - Getty Images)
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