They do not handle snow at all. Roads will go unplowed for days. People will never shovel their walks and will just wait for it to melt away. Everything will shut down. We have had the entire school system closed on the threat of "we think it might snow half an inch overnight" and nothing ended up falling.

One winter we had some snow. I stayed up until 2am shoveling every hour or so until the snow stopped so my walk was perfectly clear.

It was not expected to snow again for the rest of the week. I woke up to see that my housemates had decided to "help" by taking the entire full jug of snow-melt I had purchased and absolutely carpeting our dry-as-a-bone walk. The full jug.

Taken either as the city of DC and it's government or just the individual inhabitants, they have no idea how to handle snow and they never will. The barest dusting will cripple this entire city.

The plus side is that this entire winter long we're not expected to get more than an inch or two.

EDIT: To the people downvoting me, is there one single thing I said that's other than fully accurate? Or are you just throwing a tantrum because you don't like hearing ugly truths?