D.C. spends over $70,000 for McDonald’s during snow storm

Published March 8, 2010 5:00am ET



The District’s response to record-setting snowfall has set D.C. taxpayers back nearly $400,000 for cheeseburgers, fries and hotel rooms alone.

The December blizzard earned a presidential disaster declaration, and the response to February’s back-to-back storms also might net federal assistance. But the snow response price tag includes some costs the District will likely never recoup.

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