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More pictures of snow

We got another foot of snow yesterday along with 40 MPH winds. This made for some nice snow drifts. I added a few more pictures today if you’d like to check them out. They start with #40 in the album.

Here we go again

Well, it looks like another storm is on its way. The warning out at the moment says 10-20 inches Tuesday night through Wednesday. I think I recall the news saying were 18-19 inches away from the DC record set in the 19th century. Might as well go for it. I posted a few more pictures today from around Ballston in Arlington. There are 4-8 foot piles of snow everywhere. I can’t imagine what it’ll be like if we get another 20 inches…

The day after

Well, the sun was out all day and lots of snow cleanup is going on. There are a number of people driving around but lots of roads are still unplowed or blocked by big piles of plowed snow. I drove around a bit today and managed not to get stuck. They were loading snow on Wilson Blvd into a dump truck as I drove through, since there was nowhere to put it all. I’ve never seen that in Virginia. Pretty impressive storm.

So here’s the after picture of the car unburied. A crew with a snowblower cleaned out the rest of the lot today, but the pile of snow in the pic is about 90% mine.

It snowed this weekend

As you’re probably well aware, DC got a crapload of snow this weekend. I don’t know what the official number is but in Arlington, we’re pushing two feet in some areas. I was supposed to go on a cross country ski trip in western Maryland today, but that was very much canceled due to road conditions.

Instead, I took the opportunity to ski in town! The route ended up being Rosslyn, Iwo Jima, Arlington Cemetery, Memorial Bridge, and back. All in all, probably three miles so not too crazy. Thankfully, there were tracks from people walking that I was able to stay in most of the time. XC skiing through two feet of untracked fresh snow is only slightly easier than walking through it.

After getting a decent skiing workout, I topped it off with an hour or two of shoveling my car out. For the December snow, I was parallel parked on the street. I’m parked just off the street in a little parking lot this time, which has it’s advantages and disadvantages. While I won’t get as massively plowed in, I had to shovel out a path to the road as well. The end result was a giant snow berm that’s probably 6 feet tall and 12 feet long. That baby won’t melt until April. I’ll take a picture tomorrow. Here’s the before picture and click here for the rest of my pictures from today.