Snoverkill and Cabin Fever
February 10th, 2010 | Categories: Life | 12 CommentsThis is the view that I woke up to this morning:
Those giant white splotches are clusters of snowflake that have clumped together on my window. That brown box thing in the distance? That used to look like a building. And those big green things in the middle? Yeah, they’re trees, but it’s a question of how long they’re going to remain upright before they break and collapse underneath the weight of all the heavy snow on the branches. You can compare my photo from last weekend’s Snowpocalypse/Snowmageddon to this week’s Snoverkill storm to get a better idea of just how much snow there is outside.
There is a blizzard warning in effect until 7pm tonight and the government has halted snow removal because it is simply too dangerous for the workers to continue plowing the roads. Snowmageddon/Snowpocalypse dumped almost three feet of snow and Snoverkill is due to dump at least another two feet in the area. At minimum, there is going to be four feet of snow total – and that’s not even calculating the amount of (sometimes black) ice underneath the layer of snow.
I haven’t had class all week and I definitely won’t have it tomorrow. Class on Friday is looking pretty dicey at this rate as well. While it’s been nice to have an unexpected break in the middle of February, I’m starting to get a bad case of cabin fever. I’ve been trying to occupy myself by reading, surfing the web, and watching TV (until the satellites go down because of the blizzard). But there’s only so much that can keep you occupied when you’re shut up inside with friends who are feeling just as antsy as you are…
ETA: Someone made a time lapse of last weekend’s Snowmageddon. Now, take that and multiply it by about 100 to take into account Snoverkill’s blizzard status, and you should have some idea of what it’s currently like in DC.
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Hi, I'm Manda. I'm a college student studying communications and languages. I like to read, shop, bake, and travel. I have a tendency to listen to my favorite songs on repeat for hours on end. Sometimes I catch myself thinking in a language other than English. 
Holy crow – that tree in the background of the video! Poor thing!
Oh gosh! Well we had a blizzard as well and classes got canceled for today, but I doubt they will be canceled tmro. Everything around here doesn’t look like itself as well, its so foggy that I can’t even see the building a few hundred yards across from me.
I haven’t had class for a week. It’s BAD where I am :/
Hope you’re staying safe & warm! I’m in NoVA and not getting hit *quite* as hard as folks inside the district but it’s still waist deep and super windy. I read somewhere earlier today that they’re recommending “even if you go out just to shovel your step, make sure someone knows where you are in case you get lost.” I’d like to hear stories of someone getting lost shoveling snow off their own porch. ;)
Earlier today it was total white-out conditions so that you couldn’t tell which way was up, down, left, or right. In those conditions I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of people getting lost on their own porch because they’d be so disoriented!
That looked horrible. :/ I’m sorry that th snow is so bad over there, it makes me wish that you were here instead! I hope the situation improves soon and you will be safe until then!
That is a lot of snow. Holy crap! By the way, all these words like Snowmageddon and Snowpocalypse make me giggle uncontrollably.
I’ve had enough of the snow too… urgh… but you have wow loads of snow!
Whoa! That’s a heck load of snow! I can’t say I’ve ever seen a build up of snow like that on a window either, apart from windows the snow on the ground reaches.
Bloody hell that is a lot of snow, makes me feel silly for getting all worked up about England’s snow a few weeks back, that was nothing compared to this.
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