Saturday, January 23, 2016

Report from the apocalypse

Jeanne d'Arc
Jeanne d'Arc awaits the snow on Friday afternoon, Meridian Hill Park

After days of dire warnings, the snow finally began to fall yesterday afternoon.  A day later, the winter storm dubbed "Snowzilla" by my favorite local weather forecasters, the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang (I refuse to use the Weather Channel's "Jonas") has unfolded about as predicted.  This morning I measured between 16 and 18 inches of snow.  By Buffalo standards (where I grew up) that's not so bad, but for a city like Washington, DC it's a disaster.  Ironically, I was supposed to be flying to Buffalo today to visit with my family; needless to say all airports are closed and all flights are cancelled.  And we're not done yet; it's supposed to snow some more later today and into tonight so we may well get the two feet or more they've been warning.  I don't have much more to say so here's my video report (you'll need to click on the image to go to the video in Flickr):

Report from the apocalypse

For comparison, here's the same view of my garden as of November; last year wasn't my garden's best, but it looked a whole lot better than right now!

Garden

4 comments :

  1. The November photo looks great, especially in comparison. It's always shocking to go back and view summer photos at this time of year -- so lush, so green!

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  2. We're at almost 3 ft! But it guarantees me several days off so bring on the snow. :o)

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  3. The weather channel has made a mockery of the seriousness of named storms.
    According to them, "The population affected must reach a threshold"

    Really? What's next? "FOLKS ON EAST COAST BRACING FOR POLAR VORTEX *POCAHONTAS*??
    COLD FRONT "OPTIMUS PRIME" to save us from HEAT WAVE "MEGATRON".??
    THE CANTORE CHANNEL (What I call TWC) is a joke with its long boring elevator music "Your current conditions" segments.

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  4. The National Weather Service/National Hurricane Center(NWS/NHC) Rejected TWC's naming of frontal systems & other non tropical Low pressure systems.
    NWS/NHC/NOAA went as far as issuing press releases asking Mainstream media outlets NOT to recognize TWC names for winter storms.
    Unfortunately many local media outlets still do for ratings.

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