Snowbound mid-Atlantic gets set for a new round

Federal workers in Washington, with the exception of emergency employees, were asked to stay home Monday. Students in some schools in the nation's capital also got a snow day.

Many residents who spent the weekend gleefully making snowmen and hurling snowballs grumbled as they painfully shoveled hip-high snow from driveways Sunday.

"The streets are pretty well covered," Kingsley Barrito said about his subdivision in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

"No cars coming in or out of here. Hopefully everyone in the community has enough supplies to last them for a little while, because it doesn't look like we're going anywhere anytime soon," Barrito said Sunday in a post he submitted to iReport, a CNN Web site that allows people to submit posts, pictures and videos.

Crews worked around the clock to clear roads and repair power lines, warning that it might take days to restore electricity to some customers from Pennsylvania to Virginia.

A record 32.4 inches of snow fell on Washington's Dulles International Airport over two days, breaking a January 7-8, 1996, record of 23.2 inches.

The airport reopened to limited service Sunday, but asked travelers not to arrive at the airport without confirmed flights.