The Winter of more DC Snow...
Snowpocalypse Snowmaggeddon Snoverkill continues...
Just when I thought I'd finished digging out, it's snowing again. Projected 8-16" in my area, with high winds threatening power outages.
The Federal Government offices in DC were shut down again today, and will be closed tomorrow as well.
Which is probably a good thing - my company sent out an email this morning warning people not to stand close to the outside of our office building for fear of getting hit by falling chunks of ice and snow off the roof. (Those 9' long icicles look awesome, until they are falling at you from 90' up like a spear of frosty doom...)
I didn't go in. My neighborhood is all single lane right now, and afternoon driving is a chore best left to emergency workers, the desperate, or the exceedingly foolish. None of which I am. I did a quick grocery run this morning at 0630, but I had no desire to experience my standard 20 mile commute (which features roads that are normally scenic and fun to drive, but become very unsafe in bad weather) nor the likely hour plus drive if I took safer roads. I just don't see the point in the risk - especially when my customers aren't there. I'll just keep sleeping in late, and frittering my way through Photoshop tutorials.
I'm burning up vacation hours, but I suppose this is why I've carried such a stockpile. Dave's risk-averse lifestyle in action.
And yeah, we're now naming the storms. Individually, we've had two of the top ten snow storms in city history this winter, and total accumulation is closing in on the 1899 record. Individually, both trailed the 1979 storm (just barely, and which I don't remember well), the 1899 blizzard, and the deadly Knickerbocker Storm of 1922.(Unofficial reports talk of the legendary Washington & Jefferson storm of 1772 which trapped both men in their homes - but it's not like we have any real measurements to confirm...
It's just really bizarre to discover that, this winter, I've apparently moved to Buffalo. Here's hoping we won't get any ice storms (1993, 1996) because the ice and power outages would take this to a whole new level of suck. Until then, happy shoveling...
Just when I thought I'd finished digging out, it's snowing again. Projected 8-16" in my area, with high winds threatening power outages.
The Federal Government offices in DC were shut down again today, and will be closed tomorrow as well.
Which is probably a good thing - my company sent out an email this morning warning people not to stand close to the outside of our office building for fear of getting hit by falling chunks of ice and snow off the roof. (Those 9' long icicles look awesome, until they are falling at you from 90' up like a spear of frosty doom...)
I didn't go in. My neighborhood is all single lane right now, and afternoon driving is a chore best left to emergency workers, the desperate, or the exceedingly foolish. None of which I am. I did a quick grocery run this morning at 0630, but I had no desire to experience my standard 20 mile commute (which features roads that are normally scenic and fun to drive, but become very unsafe in bad weather) nor the likely hour plus drive if I took safer roads. I just don't see the point in the risk - especially when my customers aren't there. I'll just keep sleeping in late, and frittering my way through Photoshop tutorials.
I'm burning up vacation hours, but I suppose this is why I've carried such a stockpile. Dave's risk-averse lifestyle in action.
And yeah, we're now naming the storms. Individually, we've had two of the top ten snow storms in city history this winter, and total accumulation is closing in on the 1899 record. Individually, both trailed the 1979 storm (just barely, and which I don't remember well), the 1899 blizzard, and the deadly Knickerbocker Storm of 1922.(Unofficial reports talk of the legendary Washington & Jefferson storm of 1772 which trapped both men in their homes - but it's not like we have any real measurements to confirm...
It's just really bizarre to discover that, this winter, I've apparently moved to Buffalo. Here's hoping we won't get any ice storms (1993, 1996) because the ice and power outages would take this to a whole new level of suck. Until then, happy shoveling...