Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Federal Government Closed Monday

The Office of Personnel Management announced this evening that the federal government will be closed on Monday. OPM's Web site was completely crashed for a while due to the onslaught of people checking on the status, but is now back up. Here's the details:


  * Emergency employees must show up for work on time.
  * Nonemergency employees (including employees on preapproved leave) will have an excused absence for the number of hours they were scheduled to work.
  * Telework employees may have to work from their home or other prearranged telework site.
  * Employees on alternative work schedules who were already scheduled to have tomorrow off are not entitled to another AWS day off.


In other Snowmageddon news:


* Washington's Metro is currently running only in underground tunnels ― no above-ground tracks. Metro buses are not operating today.





  * Virginia Railway Express trains will not be running Monday, and they aren't even sure they'll operate on Tuesday either. VRE said it will make that decision by 6 p.m. tomorrow.


  * More snow could be coming Tuesday. The National Weather Service this afternoon issued a winter storm watch that says we could get five or more additional inches of snow beginning Tuesday afternoon and running into Wednesday afternoon.


  * And FedLine ain't trying to brag or nothing, but we just wanted to point out that we said back in December that Snowmageddon was a much better name than Snowpocalypse. And it looks like President Obama agrees:

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