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mass transit system, violence broke out among people turned away from jobs shoveling snow from exposed subway tracks.
The snow made temporary heroes out of farmers who had been in town for weeks protesting farm prices. Tooling around in the snow, their tractor tires towering over cars, the farmers ferried doctors and nurses to hospitals and pulled marooned motorists out of drifts.
Meanwhile, the federal government all but shut down. The normally trafficchoked streets turned into a pedestrian paradise as suddenly-carefree Washingtonians celebrated the snowfall. A few dedicated bureaucrats and Capitol Hill workers skied to their jobs. But many others, including some Cabinet members, didn’t make it at all. That innocent looking white stuff had taken on the nation’s capital and won.
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