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You ve heard or at least read about the pledge of the United States Postal Service: Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds. Well, that was before government workers had a union because today they quickly note that unshoveled snow, icy sidewalks, or snow plowed up against mailboxes are all exempt from that credo.
But in February of 2010 they had a good excuse for suspending service. The National Weather Service reported that three storms spanning from December to February in the winter of 2009-10 had dumped a whopping 54.9 inches of snow on the Baltimore-Washington area and the first 10 days of February were among the worst. The snowfall broke a seasonal record first set in 1899. Snowmaggedon, as the winter was dubbed, entered the history books as the snowiest winter on record for the U.S. East Coast. Hundreds of thousands of Washington metropolitan residents grappled with the loss of electricity and heat for almost a w