Huge snowball fight in Washington DC

WASHINGTON DC (WANE) - Washington, DC residents are buried under what the president jokingly called ``Snowmageddon".  The record-setting blizzard brought nearly two feet of snow to the nation's capital.

The snow was falling too quickly for crews to keep up, and officials begged residents to stay home and out of the way so that roads might be cleared in time for everyone to return to work Monday.

The heaviest on record was 28 inches in January 1922. The biggest snowfall for the Washington-Baltimore area is believed to have been in 1772, before official records were kept, when as much as three feet fell, which George Washington and Thomas Jefferson penned in their diaries.

Despite the onslaught, some ventured outside for a chance to play. Snowballs were flying in normally bustling DuPont Circle, a major Washington thoroughfare. Hundreds of people gathered for a snowball fight with word spreading through Facebook, Twitter and TV commentators.