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WASHINGTON (AP) — If snow keeps 230,000 government employees home for the better part of a week, will anyone notice? With at least another foot of snow headed for Washington, Philadelphia and New York, we're about to find out. The fed- eral government in the nation's capital has largely been shut down since Fri- day afternoon, when a storm began dumping up to 3 feet of snow in some parts of the region. Offices could remain closed at least through Wednesday. So far, the effects have been negligible. Many essential government ser- vices are performed at offices around the country, and about 85 percent of federal employees work outside the Washington region anyway. Others were working from home despite the snow. An IRS spokeswoman said tax returns should not be affected. ''Anything that is criti- cal is going to get done,'' said Linda Springer, a for- mer director of the Office of Personnel Manage- ment, which oversees the federal work force of near- ly 2 million workers. David Fiore, who works for the federal gov- ernment's Export-Import Bank of the U.S., stocked up on groceries Tuesday in Washington and said he planned to do some work from home, including a 2 p.m. conference call. ''They're open in Turkey. I'm getting e- mails from Morocco,'' he said. ''The work goes on.'' Philadelphia and Wash- ington needed just 9 more inches of snow each to log the snowiest winters since at least 1884, the first year records were kept. Even before the storm arrived in the District of Columbia, the House announced it was scrap- ping the rest of its work- week. Several hearings and meetings were post- poned, including one planned for Wednesday on Toyota's massive recalls. Agencies from the Fed- eral Communications Commission to the Feder- al Trade Commission can- celed hearings and planned announcements because of the looming snow. Shuttering the agen- cies for a day costs the government an estimated $100 million in lost pro- ductivity and related costs. Down Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House decided to move up by a day a Black History Month concert featuring Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson and Natalie Cole. It had been slated for Wednesday, but was instead moved to Tuesday night. President Barack Obama held a bipartisan meeting with congression- al leaders ahead of the storm Tuesday and joked that it went so well that Democratic Senate Major- ity Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky had gone out to play in the snow. ''In fact, I understand that McConnell and Reid are out doing snow angels on the South Lawn togeth- er,'' Obama joked as he made an unannounced stop in the White House briefing room. The snow started in the Midwest before moving into the Mid-Atlantic region, where utility work- ers struggled to restore power already knocked out by a weekend blizzard. Schools were closed and commuters found slick, slushy roads from Minneapolis and Chicago to Louisville, Ky. Hun- dreds of flights were can- celed in Chicago as the storm moved across Illi- nois, where up to 10 inch- es were forecast. Powerful winds and snow were expected to hit Mid-Atlantic states by the afternoon, potentially dropping as much as 20 more inches on Washing- ton and 18 inches near Philadelphia by Wednes- day night. New York City announced schools would have a rare snow day Wednesday, only the third in six years. Southwest Airlines and US Airways planned to halt flights out of Philadelphia at 8 p.m. Tuesday, and Washing- ton's airports expected flights to stop around 5 p.m. Continental Airlines canceled all 400 of its Wednesday flights at Newark Liberty Airport, as well as several hundred more regional flights on affiliate airlines. In Chicago, Southwest Airlines canceled all of its flights at Midway Airport through Wednesday morn- ing. James Allen, 25, of Northampton, England, arrived Sunday on the first flight to land at Balti- more's airport after its run- way reopened from the last storm. He was visiting friend Julia Tracey, 25, a nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The two were at a downtown grocery store Tuesday searching in vain for fresh herbs for a recipe. Allen had planned to stay in Baltimore for a few days, but ''it's probably going to turn into a few weeks now.'' The storm brought out the best in some. In Alexandria, Va., a family living at the bottom of a hill on an unplowed street needed to get their teenage daughter whose cancer is in remission to an important doctor's appointment. Neighbors quickly con- verged, shoveling the entire street before many had even had cleared their own driveways. Up the street, children tired of playing outside in the snow created craft items and had an impromptu sale to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti. 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