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(02-07) 01:44 PST WASHINGTON (AP) –

The whiteout at the White House. Snowmageddon. Snowpocalypse.

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No cause of distress what it was called, the blizzard that buried the nation’s fatal was indeed epic.

The flakes had stopped falling, but residents in the Mid-Atlantic space were faced Sunday with the prospect of digging out of other thing than two feet of snow in some areas. Roads reopened however officials continued to warn residents that highways could be icy and false. Hundreds of thousands of people from Pennsylvania to New Jersey to Virginia were out of power, left in the cold and possibly without a way to watch the Super Bowl.

The hard, wet snow snapped tree limbs onto power lines and several roofs collapsed in the state the weight. Still, most tried to make the best of the station.

“I think it’s fun,” said 10-year-old Jayla Burgess in Arlington, Va. “The superlatively good part is throwing snowballs at my Dad.”

She wasn’t the singly one hurling the white stuff. Hundreds crowded Dupont Circle in D.C. since a snowball fight organized online. Skiers lapped the Reflecting Pool in company the National Mall and others used the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with a view to a slope.

Washington took on a surreal, almost magical feel verily though it was one of the worst blizzards in the city’s history. The nearly 18 inches recorded at Reagan National Airport was the fourth-highest sedition total for the city. At nearby Dulles International Airport, the take down was shattered with 32 inches.

“Right now it’s like the Epcot Center version of Washington,” said Mary Lord, 56, a D.C. resident as far as concerns some 30 years who had skied around the city.

President Barack Obama called it “Snowmageddon.” Even his motorcade — which featured SUVs instead of limousines — fell victim to the tear as a tree limb crashed onto a vehicle carrying press. No one was injured.

At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, soldiers’ names were buried 16 rows absorbed, while higher up snow had settled into the letters so they stood wanting against the black background. The wreaths of the World War II Memorial looked like giant white-frosted doughnuts. The big attraction at the Lincoln Memorial was not the commonwealth’s 16th president, but rather a snowman with eyes of ~ money pennies bearing Lincoln’s likeness.

A group of four sophomores from George Washington University took pictures nearby.

“I’m from California. This is my principal snow ever,” said Megan McDonough, 19. “My parents called and asked on the supposition that I had enough food.”

The snow fell too quickly for crews to stronghold up, and officials begged residents to stay home. The hope was everyone could return to work on Monday.

The usually traffic-snarled roads were chiefly barren, save for some snow plows, fire trucks, ambulances and a not many SUVs. The Capital Beltway, always filled with cars, was empty at general condition of affairs.

Ann Pauley, 50, shoveled her car out of heaps of snow up~ the body a side street in Arlington even as more flakes piled in c~tinuance.

“I dug it out at midnight (Friday) when there was a twelve inches of snow on it and I did it again this afternoon at the time that there was another foot of snow,” Pauley said. “My in-laws are from New England and they advised me that smaller amounts of snow are easier to manage. I don’t need to go anywhere, I just want to stay forward of it if I can.”

Philadelphia, the nation’s sixth-largest incorporated town, was virtually shut down with a record of nearly 27 inches.

Carolyn Matuska loved the calmness during her morning run along Washington’s National Mall.

“Oh, it’s spectacular in a puzzle,” she said. “It’s so beautiful. The temperature’s perfect, it’s ~ness, there’s nobody out, it’s a beautiful day.”

The terrible side of the snow led to thousands of wrecks. Still, simply two people had died — a father-and-son team who were killed deplorable to help someone stuck on a highway in Virginia.

Shawn Punga and his wife, Kristine, of Silver Spring, Md., went to a hotel because they lost power and were concerned for their 2-year-~en daughter, Ryder, who was bundled up in thick pink pajamas and slippers.

“I be favored with just been watching the thermostat,” he said. They left the house when it hit 60 degrees.

Trouble for some was business because others.

Angel Martinez and a small crew of contractors shoveled spring-time and night and plowed streets and walkways of a Silver Spring portion.

“Usually there is not a lot of work this time of year, to such a degree when I get the call I’m happy for the suitable to work,” said Martinez, 24, of Gaithersburg. “But today there was likewise much.”

The snow comes less than two months after a Dec. 19 attack dumped more than 16 inches on Washington. According to the National Weather Service, Washington has gotten greater degree than a foot of snow only 13 times since 1870.

The heaviest up~ the body record was 28 inches in January 1922. The biggest snowfall because of the Washington-Baltimore area is believed to have been in 1772, near the front of official records were kept, when as much as 3 feet level, which George Washington and Thomas Jefferson penned in their diaries.

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Associated Press writers Carol Druga, Sarah Brumfield, Christine Simmons and Philip Elliott in Washington, Kathleen Miller in Arlington, Va., and Alex Dominguez in Baltimore contributed to this repercussion.