If you actually got a snow day down here, you wouldn't be able to make it to Starbucks.
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Winter weather advisory until 2200 EST5EDT, 20091205.
Why yes, we are experiencing winter weather at the moment. Why do you ask?
It's funny... Lyssa and I just finished getting the apartment cleaned up for the yearly cookie party and it's snowing today.
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Winter in DC sneaks up on you.
All day yesterday the weather reports threatened a snowstorm which was predicted to shut down the DC area. As a former resident of Pittsburgh, my attitude toward such things consists of "I'll believe it when I see it," carefully enculturated through years of school delays and cancellations due to snowstorms which never seemed to materialize. The snow started coming down late last night, and around 0130 this I was awakened by the sirens of a pair of UPSes in the office signalling loss of power. As near as I can tell, ice forming on the wires knocked out power to …
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It took long enough to get snowfall out of this winter.
Winter in DC is a funny thing; it's rare to actually get anything other than bitter cold temperatures and the odd gust of wind. Every once in a while we'll get some rain out of the deal. It wasn't until last week that we actually saw any snowfall, so I had to take a few pictures for novelty's sake.
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Snowed in for the second time this month, and this time it's not so bad. (out of order stream of consciousness post)
I knew that something was going to happen when I spoke to my mom, and she mentioned getting ready for an ice storm in Pittsburgh on Saturday night.
That meant only one thing: It was headed toward DC.
Early this morning, I was awakened by the sound of snowflakes merrily ticking against the window above the bed that Lyssa and I share. Some time after we went to bed last night, the ice storm arrived in DC and the snow began to fall.
And fall.
And fall.
The local weather report says that we're looking and three to six inches …Read more...
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Yeah, it is Valentine's Day, isn't it?
As one would surmise, it's Valentine's Day, so Lyssa and I had planned to go to a local restaurant (the Sweetwater Tavern) for dinner to celebrate after work tonight. Little did we realise that it would turn into something of an adventure right from the outset.
As I wrote earlier today, DC was hit by what was considered a major ice storm last night, and temperatures continue to fall. Not only does this mean that roadways transformed into ice skating rinks (which eventually caused the shutdown of part of the outer loop of the beltway today due to a multi-car …Read more...
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It seems that we got very lucky last night
Around 0000 EST/EDT today (just before going to bed) we lost power for a couple of minutes. The UPSes in the apartment took up the slack, but it's always worrisome when it's cold as all get out and the power dies. It came back on a few minutes later but not everyone was so lucky around here - over 120,000 homes are still without power due to the ice storm last night. MAT (Maryland Authority Transit) has shut down for the day due to the ice.
I can see out of my office window that at least one school …Read more...
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You know it's bad when the federal government has a longer delay than the schools.
DC is a winter wonderland - as the title implies, the US government is on a two hour delay following an all-night ice storm that's left everything buried underneath an inch of solid ice. The beltway, from my vantage point at home, is moving at a nice clip for a change, but that's because there are so few cars on it this morning; normally it's bumper to bumper now you can actually see measurable gaps between them. As you might have guessed I'm working from home today because I can't make it to the Metro station without risking life, limb, and …
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Neal Stephenson had days like this...
Let me see.. temperatures fell yesterday and it's been snowing pretty constantly all morning. This isn't, in itself, really a bad thing because it's been warmer than it has been lately (if the air's too cold it won't snow) but travelling is going to be a pain because DC drivers, as I've mentioned before, forget how to drive whenever something starts falling from the sky. The fairest thing one can say is that the ones who drive at a fraction of the speed limit are less likely to go out of control and cause a wreck.
On the other hand …Read more...
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It's not just (going to) a job, it's an adventure.
The good news is that Lyssa is all right; as I alluded to yesterday, she's been in a considerable amount of pain over the past couple of days. Rialian was nice enough to drive her to the doctor's office yesterday afternoon and it's been determined that she might have temporomandibular joint dysfunction. We're working on getting her to a dentist who specialises in such things to find out for certain, and thus set a course of treatment. She now has a prescription for painkillers that can actually cut the pain caused when the trigeminal nerve, which carries a large amount …
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