bjarvis: (Lake Temiskaming)
bjarvis ([personal profile] bjarvis) wrote2009-12-19 02:35 pm
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First Snowstorm of the Season!

The snow began falling last night and hasn't let up yet. There's about a foot of snow in the streets right now and could reach 20" before this storm is over around midnight tonight.

The weather reports indicate this is the heaviest snow recorded for a December storm in Washington DC and the heaviest single snowfall since 1922. Yay us.

I made a lame attempt to shovel our way out from the front door to the sidewalk but gave up after a half-hour: snow was falling so quickly that it was clear my efforts would be invisible in a couple of hours.


Our house Our house
Silver Spring, MD 2009-12-19
Our front walk Our front walk
Silver Spring, MD 2009-12-19 My feeble attempt to dig out our house. After 15 minutes, there was a half-inch of snow already filling the areas I had just cleaned.
My Honda Civic My Honda Civic
Silver Spring, MD 2009-12-19
Our street, looking east Our street, looking east
Silver Spring, MD 2009-12-19
Our street, looking west Our street, looking west
Silver Spring, MD 2009-12-19

[personal profile] apparentparadox 2009-12-19 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Several years ago we were in CT visiting Mark's brother during a massive snow storm. The three of us shoveled his very long driveway continuously -- by the time we finished, it was time to start again, and we wanted to be able to get out if need be.

[identity profile] trawnapanda.livejournal.com 2009-12-19 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
kinda like painting Sydney Harbour Bridge, right? start at one end, finally finish, start again at the beginning

lather, rinse, repeat...

(Anonymous) 2009-12-19 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
A perfectly good storm WASTED on a Saturday. Grrr. jm

[identity profile] bendoutdoors.livejournal.com 2009-12-19 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
You can build a snow fort!

[identity profile] ciddyguy.livejournal.com 2009-12-19 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Purdy!

As long as it doesn't inconvenience anyone. :-)

[identity profile] weekilter.livejournal.com 2009-12-19 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't lived on the east coast for over 20 years so I don't really remember. Are big storms with over 50 cm of snow any kind of normal in DC and the urbs?

I can remember living in Maine during my growing up years it was sort of "normal" that we'd get walloped by at least a couple storms during the season so bad that kids didn't go to school or that classes would be canceled at UofM.

[identity profile] mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com 2009-12-19 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
WOW! Stay safe and warm!

HUGS!

[identity profile] billeyler.livejournal.com 2009-12-19 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It certainly didn't look like that a month ago!

[identity profile] abqdan.livejournal.com 2009-12-20 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh it looks so lovely! I want to come visit. Oh wait - no flights because of snow :-)