I’ve been moaning for a while about wanting to experience some east coast snow. Be careful what you wish for. It started snowing Friday morning. It was sufficiently warm that even by Friday evening, it wasn’t building up on the streets or sidewalks. But it kept snowing over night (for more than 36 hours before it stopped), and definitely accumulated. It was a wet heavy show that broke down trees, and left a slippery layer of ice on the streets and sidewalks. I went out walking on Saturday while it was still snowing, and it was knee deep in the street. While there were some tracks on the streets from the few cars that had passed, the sidewalks were pretty much blocked, so the few adventurous people were out waking in the middle of Pennsylvania Ave. Definitely a winter wonderland.
I wish I could have stayed around and enjoyed the snow, but I had a business trip out of town Monday morning. While the main roads were somewhat cleared, the conditions in DC were so bad there were few taxis out Monday morning, and they didn’t even have anybody manning their phone center. Fortunately I did manage to get out to the airport, and I made it out of town. I came back on Friday. DC had another hard snow mid-week, and things were still pretty bad on the side streets. The grocery stores were just starting to get restocked a week after the first big snow. Now if only I had my boots out here.