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Hello, and welcome to the Slate Politicalap Fest for the 17th of December.

I'm John Dickerson in Washington with David Plotz.

A little snowy here.

Emily Bazelon is in Connecticut.

Where has it snowed, Emily?

Not really.

No.

It's feeling very northeasterly down here.

And so the city's gone into a total chaos mode, but we're all safe inside our little room here.

That is so not true. How was the city gone into chaos mode? Did you just drive to here an hour ago?

No, why would you drive? Why would you drive? Because I drove in from my house. I know, but that's... So who has a better understanding of how it's like outside. In what way was there chaos? Well, there were people throwing rocks in you.

There were people who were fish tailed in the middle of the road.

There were other people screaming at other people because pedestrians were like slipping

around on the road.

It was chaotic relative to a normal sunny day.

Washington, D.C. ever unable to handle any amount of snow.

Oh, come on.

That is.

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