{"id":3028,"date":"2009-12-19T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T15:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2022-05-11T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:23:19","slug":"let-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/let-it-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Let it Snow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s snowing here in the Washington, DC area today. Already they&#8217;re calling it the snowpocalypse, the snownami, and of course &#8220;The Blizzard of 2009&#8221;. People around here tend to overreact when it snows because we don&#8217;t generally get large accumulations. Naturally everyone stripped the grocery stores bare of milk, bread, and toilet paper as it approached. So predictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an odd manifestation of a herd instinct. The cities and counties don&#8217;t have equipment to deal with anything more than a couple of inches. Of course they can&#8217;t prepare for something of an even larger scale that happens maybe once every five or ten years. Thus, the populace fell into in full panic buying mode yesterday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Staring Outside<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how it appeared around 9:30 this morning from the safety and warmth of our enclosed porch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/graphics\/blog\/arlington_snowstorm_2009.jpg\" alt=\"Washington DC Blizzard of 2009. Photo by howderfamily.com\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I measured eight inches of snow on the ground a few moments ago. Meanwhile, we&#8217;re still waiting for the heaviest part of the storm to arrive. Weather officials expanded a blizzard warning over our specific location a little while ago. The meteorologist on the local television station just said he can&#8217;t recall ever seeing a blizzard warning issued for the District of Columbia. We, of course, live just across the border in the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=43\">Commonwealth<\/a>. So apparently we&#8217;re right in the thick of it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironically, we decided to remain in Virginia over the holidays because of <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=685\">the awful weather we experienced<\/a> when we visited the in-laws in Wisconsin last winter. Now they&#8217;re calling for 15-24 inches here by the time the storm passes this evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nothing Better to Do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of those days where we&#8217;ll remain indoors as the snow falls and the winds howl. I don&#8217;t have anywhere I need to go. We finished the Christmas shopping. Everyone is warm and happy. I have a big mug of coffee and a pile of unread magazines. 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