The snowstorm of February 11, 1983, that is. My fiance and I had a meeting with a priest to arrange for our wedding later in the year. When we came out of St. Mathews it was impossible for us to get out to Reston, so I got a hotel room. The next morning we got a cab out to Reston. It had to drop us off about a few hundred yards from the house, so we trudged through the snow, me in my loafers IIRC.
The Politico story says that the snowstorm shut down DC, enabling Nancy Reagan to set up a family dinner with the Shultzes, over which the relatively new Secretary of State bonded with the president, and which led eventually to Reagan's opening to the Soviets.
That's what happens when the unexpected hits; the people who are confined together form bonds. Notoriously, Clinton and Monica started their bonding during the government shutdown.
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