A salute to a snow-clearing hero: “It just felt easier to grab a shovel and do something”

The District has been sending out crews with big equipment to clear the heavy and hardened snowcrete from Connecticut Avenue intersections.

But neighbor Stefanie Sprow was out there first, armed only with a shovel.

Connecticut Avenue and Albemarle Street was the first intersection she dug out. It was January 29th, four days after the region’s biggest winter storm dropped seven inches of snow and sleet. Sprow saw two parents awkwardly carrying their strollers and their children over the snowcrete piles…

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