Image courtesy Patrick D. Lewis.
Well over a week after Winter Storm Fern dropped around eight inches of snow and sleet on the nation’s capital, a concerning number of side streets and sidewalks remain unplowed and unnavigable around both Catholic University’s campus and the city at large.
Precipitation ended early on the morning of January 27. Many local schools cancelled classes for the entire week, but federal and city workers returned to the office mid-week. D.C. Public Schools reopened Thursday, and Catholic University returned to normal operations Friday. Despite that, on Friday afternoon, both university-maintained sidewalks as well as city sidewalks along the edges of campus were still snow-covered, as were sidewalks near the Brookland-CUA Metro station. By this past Wednesday, many sidewalks were still unplowed, and many D.C. side streets still had a significant amount of sludge in them…