{"id":1993801,"date":"2023-08-07T22:29:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T02:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-storm-is-coming-for-dc-federal-employees-sent-home-early\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T22:32:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T02:32:51","slug":"a-storm-is-coming-for-dc-federal-employees-sent-home-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-storm-is-coming-for-dc-federal-employees-sent-home-early\/","title":{"rendered":"DC braces for incoming storm, federal workers dismissed early."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-storm-is-coming-for-dc-federal-employees-sent-home-early%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1993801&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Storm Is Coming for DC, Federal Employees Sent Home Early<\/h2>\n<p>Thousands of federal employees were sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-accuses-rape-survivor-rep-mace-of-silencing-victims-for-highlighting-location-during-breach-mace-fires-back\/\" title=\"Ocasio-Cortez Accuses Rape Survivor Rep. Mace Of Silencing Victims For Highlighting Location During Breach; Mace Fires Back\">home early<\/a> on Monday as the Washington area \u2062faced a looming forecast for destructively\u2064 strong storms, including tornadoes, hail, and lightning.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d Office of Personnel Management announced Monday that all\u2064 non-emergency employees would have\u200b to \u200bdepart before 3 p.m., when all federal offices would close. This\u200c rare step comes ahead of an impending storm that meteorologists have predicted could be unusually destructive.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/evacuations-ordered-severe-weather-event-us-one-dead-overwhelmed-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Weather Service<\/a> has issued \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/alerts.weather.gov\/cap\/wwacapget.php?x=DC12665A1332D8.TornadoWatch.12665A1FFD10DC.WNSWOU2.126f87a9867797a4e0586246f04cda52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tornado watch\u2062 for the greater D.C<\/a>. area, lasting until 9 p.m., as well as a flood warning extending through Tuesday morning. \u2064A\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/product.php?site=lwx&#038;issuedby=LWX&#038;product=SPS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special Weather Service statement<\/a> warned,\u2063 \u201cThere \u200bis a significant \u200bthreat for damaging and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-storm-is-coming-for-dc-federal-employees-sent-home-early\/\" title=\"DC braces for incoming storm, federal workers dismissed early.\">locally destructive hurricane-force winds<\/a>, \u200balong with the potential for large hail and tornadoes,\u200d even strong \u200btornadoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White \u2064House pushed up President Joe \u200cBiden\u2019s departure on \u2063a four-day \u200btrip by 90 minutes; the trip will take\u00a0him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tesla-model-y-owner-says-car-trapped-inside-hot-arizona-summer-day-battery-died\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona<\/a>,\u200b New Mexico, and Utah. The White House also\u2064 canceled\u200b a back-to-school cybersecurity event that was set to feature first lady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jill-bidens-ex-husband-alleges-dangerous-biden-crime-family-come-35-years-row\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jill Biden<\/a>, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-private-school-students-anonymously-accused-school-officials-of-racism-the-school-caved\/\" title=\"Elite Private School Students Anonymously Accused School Officials Of Racism. The School Caved.\">school administrators<\/a>, educators, and \u2063education technology providers from around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Tornado watches were posted across 10 states, from \u2063Tennessee to New York, but the National Weather Service said\u200b the area \u200cof greatest concern centered in\u2063 the Washington-Baltimore region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis does look to be one of the most impactful severe weather events across the \u2064Mid-Atlantic than we have had in some time,\u201d National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Strong\u200c said in a Facebook\u2063 live \u2064briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters were also concerned \u2062with the timing \u200bof the storms. They \u200dwere expected to strike major population areas in the late afternoon \u200dand early evening, prompting federal workers to be sent home early, so\u2064 they wouldn\u2019t\u2063 be in their cars\u200b amid\u200d wind, hail, and tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p>Strong advised residents: \u201cHave yourself in a strong shelter. Be at home or \u2064be at\u200b work.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story \u200band may have altered it\u200c prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-storm-coming-dc-federal-employees-sent-home-early\/\">A\u200c Storm Is\u2063 Coming for\u2063 DC, Federal Employees Sent Home \u200bEarly<\/a> appeared first\u2064 on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>due to the imminent threat of severe storms in the Washington area. Thousands of federal employees were instructed to leave work before 3 p.m., resulting in the closure of all federal offices. The Office of Personnel Management made this unusual decision to ensure the safety of non-emergency staff in the face of potential tornadoes, hail, and lightning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1993802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}