Grits & Gossip: Snow

snOMG, snomageddon, blizzaster, snobama, winter wallop, snowfecta, snoverkill, snopocolypse: the sequel.....whatever you want to call it, I've had enough!

Everyone knows by now that we (in the DC area) were SLAMMED last week by not one, but two huge snow storms. It started over the weekend and continued into last week. We couldn't get in to work for 4 days. If you count the weekend "snow days" that brings the snowed-in total to 6 1/2 days. A full week of preparing for the snow, thinking about snow, cleaning up from the snow, rinse and repeat.

Even my camera decided it had enough of snowy white pictures and decided to shut down. Thanks to my roommate for the snapshots from her camera! All of these were taken after the first big storm, before we were SO over it!

Seriously, it was above my knees....

Venturing out. All of that had to be shoveled....

Into piles taller than me....

I took advantage of a last minute flight to SC to get away from it all. And wouldn't you know, there was even snow in SC! The difference being that the SC snow was almost completely gone within 24 hours. Now THAT is how I prefer snow.

I flew back to DC this morning and there is still a LOT of snow on the ground. I think it will be with us until June. I'm coping with this record-breaking winter by dreaming of Spring. It can't get here fast enough!

Since I'm a little behind on updates, I decided to rewind a month to the end of December when I survived the Blizzard of 2009 (or the Winter Wallop, as the Weather Channel named it or Snowpocalypse as my roommate called it.)

I posted here about the silver lining of this storm before a single snowflake even fell.

So take a second and pretend it's the weekend of December 19th, 2009, a week before Christmas. If you'll recall, the snow storm hit the DC area hard and we got around 2 feet of snow. Which was more snow than I've ever seen. And of course...us southern girls didn't even have a proper snow shovel. Thank goodness for friendly neighbors!

We hunkered down for a full 24 hours of non-stop snow, eating a lot of junk/delicious food, and taking advantage of the time to rest up for our holiday trips.

Our Winter Wallop survival kit...

Shira pointed out how ironic our mantle decor turned out to be. I was not amused.

We woke up to this, but much more snow fell throughout the day....

There was a guy on our street trying to get his car out so he wouldn't be stranded with his girlfriend. (They might need to reevaluate their relationship.) He was so desperate and clueless of how to do this, that he proceeded to let a group of southern girls push his car all the way down the street. At which point our neighbor said, "Do you think he's going to tell people that a group of girls pushed his car out?" And remember, we had never seen so much snow, let alone know how to dig/push cars in it. Not sure if this shows how dumb the guy was or how awesome we are. I'll go with both. He was lost without us!

Then it was back to shoveling our own path and driveway. I was SO sore from all the hard work!

We ventured out and saw people with skis on the National Mall. It was surreal...

Some pretty scenery...

Since the metro was closed, and cab companies wouldn't answer, we had to pick up my roommate's sister from Union Station. It was a scary drive, but I snapped this pic of the wreaths in front.

The next day, all that stood between me and my Christmas vacation was digging these three cars out. Please let me call your attention to the fact that the snow is up to our tires.