Yesterday's recruiting weekend awkwardly coincided with a major Snow Storm. They are calling it the Snowpocalypse. We've got 18 inches on the ground, choking streets and crumbling trees. A state of emergency has been declared in our county, and the news says the National Guard has been deployed. Obviously, Matt and I are capable of handling ourselves in inclement weather, so please don't worry. On our street, we've been battling the snow and enjoying the change in scenery. We walked up the hill to see that the grocery store and not much else was open. We did have time to stop in and get some cupcakes from Dozens- which should sustain us through the worst of this.
While this put a major cramp on our recruiting plans (ie, no one was able to get TO the recruits today, as far as I know, and we many of them hand to push start cars to get back to the hotel last night), now that we don't have anything important to do we are having a lot of fun. Matt took some photos this morning, so you can also see the wonderland. If you are scanning headlines with anxiety, we are warm, we've got power and we're safe.
Here is the view of Forbes and Murray (major intersection) this morning. People were cross country skiing, and dragging kids in sleds up the middle of the street.
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Boy, you can tell I'm old, but I am sure in the perspective pieces that will be done soon about historic bad snowstorms to hit the East coast, you'll see mentioned the winter of 78-79 when Canada fell on DC in particular, utterly paralyzing the Capitol city. This storm extended my winter break in Med school and led to some remarkable front page pictures, my favorite of which was a lone cross-country skier striding down I-95, inside the Beltway, absolutely alone. We have pictures in our old albums of our cars looking like dinosaurs. That's probably why we moved to Juneau where it's 40'ish, clear and snow free today.
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