winterbadger | Dec. 19th, 2009

Yes, Washington is having one of its rare snowstorms. They started out predicting 4-5" and ended up last I heard around 24". There were at least 6 on my wheelie bin this morning before I put it away. I contributed one pass to the house project of trying to keep our front steps and walk to the street clear, and by the time I had gone all the way up there were at least a couple of mm of snow where I'd been. Ah, well, it's exercise and it gives me an opportunity to wear my foul weather gear (wonderfully warm and dry and almost emergency services yellow).

The snow started about four hours early, right when

shy_kay and

redactrice and I were going in to the Natalie MacMaster concert in Fairfax. When we came out, snow had blanketed everything thinly, and people were driving about 5 mph almost everywhere. It took me about 2.5 hours to get home (I would expect normally it would take about an hour at that time of night). It could have been worse, though. Apparently some people were stuck out on the highway all night.

But once I got home and didn't have to deal any more with the idiots driving far too slowly and the idiots driving way too fast, and the fact that there were large numbers of plows sitting by the side of the highway idling their engines while the snow on the road was a couple of inches deep... once I got home I could just drink in the dark and the white and the sound of silent snowfall. It was lovely. I stayed up very late (because I couldn't bear to go to bed), and then finally fell under the covers, waking hours later to find the snow is still falling...and falling...