MEGAN MCARDLE: “If this is how we react to a snow storm, what are we going to do when the Russkis invade?”

UPDATE: More:

Sitting here in DC right now (Tuesday afternoon). It’s a ghost town. Little traffic….still downtown streets with no serious attempt at clearing snow. And, of course, the government shut down…the one bright spot.

A private utility that did not take steps to deal with a situation like this would be broken on the regulatory wheel. Politicians, not so much.

Indeed.