Originally Posted by djp98374

I lived in that area for a dozen years. I was there when Isabel hit.

The subway will be back to running barring something major and unforeseen.

There will be alot of power outages which will take time for that power to be restored due to fallen trees and downed power lines.

During Isabell i was fortunate living on the same power grid as an assisted living center which had priority for restoring power. Coworkers of mine were without power for 2-3 weeks due to all the trees down.

In downtown DC where there isnt much in terms of trees there likely wont be much power issues. It is possible some areas of metro could be closed off because of repair.

since metro stations usually have 2-3 different entry points if all were damaged they would work to open one then work to open others.

DC has gone through previous tropical storms and nor'easters so this wont be that much different than past storms.

the flight traffic is a whole other story. What airline are you flying?

If you are flying alaska this will have no impact. If you are flying jet blue or United then it will probably have some impact on routing and schedule.

If you dont need to travel this weekend and can postpone the travel to a future weekend --then i suggest that. The airlines will let passengers change.