Snowpocalypse!

PAUL:
Well we survived the SNOWMAGEDDON! (my personal favorite is SNOMG). To be honest it has been not much more than a snonnoyance. My flight to Orlando got cancelled today so following a bit of re-organising I am now going Monday afternoon. This means I shall get to watch the Superbowl with Sof tonight. The enthusiasm Sof has for this is positively boundless.

The snow started on Friday and we thought we would see the cool headedness of the Americans kick in. Unfortunately the DC area is traditionally recognised as being the panic centre of the universe when it comes to snow and this was starting early. The federal agencies had already said go home early from work and we had decided to drop our hire car back a day early so we wouldn't get charged if we couldn't get it back on time. We left the airport at 11am to head off to the centre of DC on the metro.

Using Sofia's 'SatNav' brain we were off to buy some tickets for an evening with Kevin Smith at a synagogue somewhere within the DC diamond. Sof was positive that we had to get off at Chinatown (No Hello Kitty intent she swears). Once off the Metro SOf lost the ability to remember more than one of the street names that the synagogue was on. This meant that we now had the option to walk the entire east-west stretch of DC to find the place hoping it would "stand out if we passed it".

Extremely fortunately for Sof and in no way due to her navigational skills. it did stand out and we managed to get our tickets. And still it snowed!

We picked up some lunch from a potbelly's sandwich shop I loved it Sof said it was too hot. Ha! And still it snowed.

The journey back from DC was a bit fraught. Every worker in the state was leaving work early cause of the snow and each metro was packed to overflowing. My previous experience with a packed metro gave me a sense of foreboding. As Obi Wan said "I have a bad feeling about this" Luckily the driver had a bit of a sense of humour and organised the metro into two teams to see who could allow passengers on and off the train more successfully. I can hereby let you know that the Right side of the train was officially better.

Once home we set about watching the snow build up. And blimey did it keep coming. The Friday night was okay but by Saturday it was getting Snowpocalyptic!!! We had three trips outside in to the driveway and pavement to do some shovelling. Once again very grateful to the neighbour with the snow plough as he did part of the sidewalk for us. That saved about two hours of digging. It kept snowing until 7pm Sat night by which time it had reached a buttock high 26 inches for us.

I stepped out to do the last dig out of the day and returned back to a bottle of beer and some BBQ ribs (+ the leftovers from our previous nights pizza). Feet up and time for a film (watched the Da Vinci Code). Now we are spending our Sunday marvelling at the depth of the snow and then having to look away as the sun is too bloody dazzling off the snow. Worst snowfall in 70 years.

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