In an alley off I Street NE, between 7th and 8th streets, a D.C. Department of Public Works trash compactor truck carefully backs down a narrow path that is virtually a sheet of ice.
About a dozen crew members busily gather mounds of trash that have accumulated in and around the multiple trash cans lining the alley.
At the other end of the alley, a compact Toyota is stuck in a large mound of ice, spinning its wheels. Three DPW workers push the car, which finally came out of the ice and was freed…