According to the National Weather Service, D.C. denizens can look forward to digging out from beneath 4-8 inches of fresh powder before this latest white out fades to black late Thursday.  

So, why not take chef Jacques Haeringer’s advice and mull what’s really important?

The second-generation owner/operator of L’Auberge Chez Francois strongly recommends warming up with a slowly simmered batch of spice-infused vino.  

Ill prepared to booze it up?  

Barracks Row wine shop DCanter  is dead set on meeting the community’s imbibing needs no matter what, imploring constituents in a missive sent late Wednesday to come on in.  

Steep to it!  

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