EAST COAST STORM

A government worker uses a front loader to clear snow from Upper Senate Park on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. The mid-Atlantic region is preparing for another powerful storm that could deliver as much as 16 inches of fresh snow on Wednesday to a capital already beleaguered by restricted roadways, limited mass transportation and mounds of plowed snow. (Brendan Smialowski/The New York Times)