Epic Snow
Well I couldn’t NOT write about this one. 24 hours of constant, unbroken snowfall has left us buried under 20 inches. We vaulted into the top ten of historic Washington snowstorms, taking the number six spot for most snow in a two-day period. It started at 9pm on Friday, and didn’t stop until about 9pm on Saturday. Lovely to look at. Hell to shovel. At least this time we got plowed steadily through the day. In the 1996 storm (number five) we didn’t get plowed for nearly a week! Looks like we’ll be making a farmer-style breakfast before we go out to start digging ourselves out.
Mark struggled all day yesterday just to keep the doorways clear enough that we could open the doors, since our lack of porch overhangs means that our front and back doors are easily blocked by the snow. I was inside trying to finish a big presentation that’s due Tuesday to a client in Baltimore. Wonder if that meeting will still happen?
I’ll update later after we get out into it this morning.
11:30AM: After 90 minutes of shoveling, we’re about done in. Maybe another burst of activity later this afternoon will get the cars dug out. This may take a while! New photos posted to flickr…
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December 23rd, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Hello, I found your blog today while browsing for people’s Blizzard of 2009 stories. I like your post, like your writing, and liked looking at your photos.
We got about 16 inches at my place just to the northeast of Baltimore, but folks within a few miles of us in any direction seemed to get upwards of 20 like most everyone else.