April 2, 2010
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Continuing my set of Better Late Than Never updates…
L>N Part 2: Snowpocalypse/Snowmageddon 2010
Mid-December we got hit with a foot or two of snow. It was awful. Took me two hours to dig my car out that week, and it was enough snow to last me a decade.
So of course, in early February we get another two feet of snow… and another snowfall of an additional foot a few days later. It was more snow than I’d ever seen in my life, and it shut down the city for a week. And thus it was dubbed Snowpocalypse or Snowmageddon.
What happened over that week was rather interesting. All of DC, myself included, was just learning to deal with the weather. Between metro closures, cars being snowbound, and snow and ice everywhere, it was pretty bad. Even the Northerners around here quit whining about how DC folks can’t handle snow. Well, most anyway.
But by far the worst was being snowbound for a week. Sure it was nice for a few hours not needing to go into the office, but it got old fast and cabin fever set in by the middle of the second day. Basically this is how I felt:
Tarararari-ti-to, tarararari-ti-ti, I need to get out of here, tarararari-ti-to
Well, perhaps being snowbound was the second-worst thing. The worst was having to dig my car out. After the December snowfall, it took me 2 hours of digging my car out with an inadequate snow shovel. This time, J came by to visit and even collectively it took us nearly 3 hours to dig out my car… (And don’t even get me started on how no place in the whole of Northern Virginia sells snow shovels…)
Both of us were sore for days afterward…
Anyway, after several weeks all the snow finally melted and things were back to normal. I almost miss it… almost. But with warmer weather here, I certainly hope we don’t have to go through that ordeal for a long, long time. KF
