i was on the adwkdc steering committee with wendy when i was working at arnold. she did a great job at capturing the snowfall. as she said, "see 30 inches of snow pile up over 30 hours in just 30 seconds. all this, to a song that must be 300 years old. enjoy!"
it has been quite the week leading up to this weekend's storm. we had about 4 inches or so on tuesday night and was informed that this was the least of our worries. not that we would worry about 4 measly inches (after our 20 inches in december), but it's everyone else that freaks out. those of you who have lived in NOVA know what i'm talking about!
the first accumulation guesses were 12"...not great, but not horrible either. later in the week it increased to 16-18". hmmmm, getting a little more unbearable. yesterday we were told the accumulations were now going to be between 18-24". okay, so i don't want to have to deal with the same amount of snow we had in december, but at least we've learned from the last storm in that the snow removal process will be a group effort with all of our neighbors this time.
but...............i just checked washingtonpost.com and luckily i was sitting down.
LOOKING BACK AT THE BIGGEST STORM OF RECORD FOR WASHINGTON DC... THE JANUARY 1922 KNICKERBOCKER STORM ... 28.0 INCHES OF SNOW WAS PRODUCED FROM 3.02 INCHES OF LIQUID WATER. CURRENT FORECASTS FOR THIS EVENT HAVE TOTAL LIQUID FALLING FROM THIS STORM APPROACHING 3 INCHES ... WHICH ACCORDINGLY WOULD CREATE A SNOWFALL THAT WILL RIVAL THE KNICKERBOCKER STORM TOTAL. GENERALLY ACROSS THE REGION ... 20 TO 30 INCHES OF SNOW WILL FALL BY SATURDAY EVENING. (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/)
Chris Strong, Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Office in Sterling, Va. just emailed CWG and other media outlets the following note:
Our media partners, If you would, please ensure these points get some airtime. Tonight into Saturday morning will be about as dangerous as winter weather can get around here. Thank you.NWS Baltimore/WashingtonChris Strong
mwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. thanks for the fear factor chris!!! no need to panic...it's just the worst storm in almost 80 years. yeah, thanks for calming people down! ;)
luckily we have plenty of milk, juice, eggs, meat to grill, soup, bread, beer, vodka and gin! :) and in light of our impending doom here are some names for our friendly storm:
mojo turned two today!!
this past year for christmas i decided to make as many presents as i
could. i found an adorable pattern on etsy.com and adapted it for
erin's baby shower to be a diaper/wipe carrier...but it's original
purpose was to be a woman's clutch. i still haven't made one for
myself, but here are all the ones i made for christmas presents.
over new years weekend we took a trip to see our good friends nicole
and jeremy in raleigh, nc. i had worked with nicole at hecht's when
we were both in the advertising department. until just recently, they
lived in old town alexandria, but jeremy got a new job so they had to
move away from us about 6 months ago. it had been too long since we
had seen them so we finally made plans to get together and have a
relaxed long weekend. they just got a new puppy too, so we decided we
would wear her out with help from our little mojo! as you can see
they got along just fine.
mojo must have been an EXTRA special girl this year because grandpa
bought her the biggest bone she has ever seen! and in classic mojo
style, she hasn't tried to chew on the bone, she just carries it with
her everywhere she goes.
it looked like everyone at our house this year was pretty good. santa
made sure to stuff everyone's stockings and leave plenty of presents!!
and what kind of christmas would it be without mojo making the rounds
and giving everyone some love. she wants to also give a special thank
you to her cousin jerry for the christmas tree squeakie toy he sent
her. she just loves it! mojo also got a special treat from grady to
keep her occupied...peanut butter stuffed bone. YUMMY!
