Last night the Alexandria City Council accepted a $5000 check from Dominion Virginia Power for Freedmen’s Cemetery; deferred action on a request to hold a half marathon through Old Town to National Harbor and a plan to create another bipartisan citizens commission to look at changes to local elections; and approved moving forward with planned improvements to the King/Beauregard intersection.

As the first flakes of Mother Nature’s latest joke began to fall, the City of Alexandria announced more closings and cancellations.

The National Weather Service has just upgraded the Winter Storm Watch to a Winter Storm Warning, predicting 10 to 20 additional inches of snow for the Washington, DC metropolitan area. More snow to come and Alexandria crews have cleared only the City’s main roads.