I “lived” in WDC for 30 years. They’d close schools, govt offices and businesses if there was a snow cloud sighted in Wyoming.
Well, it looks like they got walloped with this. Here in NJ (NYC metro area) parents oppose closing the schools (since it doubles as daycare); NYC in particular rarely closes. In the ghetto areas the kids just don’t come anyway; the mothers (I won’t dignify this statement with “parents”) pass up the free breakfasts & lunches because “it cold”.