Snowzilla

[lavendertook]

The storm is winding down here and we didn't lose power around here--I am grateful. It started here around 1 pm yesterday and should be ending in an hour or two. After I dug out my car this afternoon, I slogged around fording a path around my building and measured the snow in a few spots--it ranged form 13 to 18 inches. We should have a few more inches since then. We got off a little lighter int he NE corner of the Beltway than folks to the west of us. Here's out my living room window:





All pics are from this morning. A lot of birds were visiting A's feeders downstairs. Here's a white throated sparrow waiting his turn to fly down:



Here's the parking lot out my sunroom windows:



Middle car is mine--Gwaihir Jr., because it's a white PT Cruiser and thus looks like a giant eagle's egg. My back is a little sore from digging out today, but I won't have to do as much tomorrow. Hopefully, we'll be able to telework on Monday and not have to slog in through it. I am not looking forward to the ongoing icy conditions we will have the coming weeks as this stuff slowly melts.

Comments

[monkey5s]

I'm relieved to see that you got off "easy", when the news blaring reports of "RECORD-SETTING SNOWFALL! 30" IN DC AND MARYLAND!!" I'm also glad you did not lose power.

I see that you are supposed to get a warm-up this week to help melt things. I wish you minimal ice and slush, and safe driving when you have to go out!

[lavendertook]

Thank you, bb! Yeah, we got 20 inches, so we did much better than the hilly areas northwest of us--they always get hit harder. And I have to commend Pepco on the improvements they'v emade in securing the lines the last few years, though the winds did not look as wild as they did in our other big storms of the last decade.

We'll get a little, but there's a lot of the white stuff around. We should get more of a warm up next week that will hopefully make a good dent in it.