Washington Post and Washington, D.C.

Muriel Bowser: Bracing for a historic pounding, winter-wary Washington, D.C., has already declared a homeland-security event, according to The Chronicle Herald. Shelves are being emptied at chaotic grocery stores. Now it about to go toe-to-toe with a hulking heavyweight of a snowstorm. Schools and offices are shutting pre-emptively, even though the storm probably won't hit before Friday afternoon. A Washington Post reporter described a five hour, 30-minute commute home on Wednesday. Mayor Muriel Bowser warned citizens to prepare for knee-deep snow — a potential 50-centimetre clobbering just a day after the quasi-southern city was paralyzed by snowfall that measured a twentieth of that. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.