Snowmageddon 2010 has Started in the DC Area, Day 1

UPDATED at 10:00 PM, Feb 5

20 — 30 inches of snow! Yes, that is what they are pre­dict­ing for us. It’s been dubbed Snow­maged­don 2010. This is the 2nd big snow­storm this win­ter. You may remem­ber on Decem­ber 19, when we got hit with 19 inches of snow. Well Mother Nature has decided that storm wasn’t enough so she’s show­ing going to top that storm.

I went out yes­ter­day and bought all the gro­ceries we’ll need espe­cially since tomor­row night Sun­day night (thought it was Sat­ur­day since my kids are home) is the Super­Bowl. (I’m not a big foot­ball fan, but I love watch­ing the com­mer­cials and eat­ing the food.) We are all set.

Bring it on Mother Nature.…we can han­dle it. I’ll keep updat­ing with pic­tures and video. It’ll give me a pur­pose this week­end so hope­fully I won’t go nuts with 4 kids and I stuck…

10:00 pm ET - We have about 6+ inches on the ground. It’s blow­ing side­ways and blow­ing all over so it’s kind of hard to tell. I’m not sure if I’ll be up for the Mid­night pic­ture, but I plan to get up at least once or twice dur­ing the night to add some pic­tures. I am tak­ing video also and I’ll put that together once it’s all done.

8:00 pm ET — Now the snow is really start­ing to pile up. They are talk­ing about thun­der snow too. Have you ever seen any­thing like that? I haven’t, but they said we don’t want to because then the snow is really heavy.

6:00 pm ET — We are now hit­ting dark so the pics are a lit­tle harder to see cuz it’s all so bright from the flash. We have about 4 inches and it’s com­ing down heav­ier. We went out to clear the dri­ve­way and just as we fin­ished we real­ized the top part had about 1/2 inch already on it in about 15 min. We are not going to be able to keep up with it over night. And now I smell like a gas sta­tion. YUCK! Now I know why I got mar­ried. So I can smell pretty and not like a gas can.

4:00 pm ET — It’s still steadily snow­ing, how­ever I think we have about 3 inches total now. But this is still the light snow. The heavy snow is sup­posed to come in the mid­dle of the night. I will prob­a­bly get up dur­ing the night and take some pic­tures just because the snow­storm of the cen­tury doesn’t come around too often. The kids are play­ing with friends, I’m watch­ing the weather chan­nel and read­ing blogs.

2:00 pm ET — It’s been steadily snow­ing, but it’s a really wet heavy snow so it seems to be com­pact­ing down. It looks like we have about 2.5 — 3 inches now. They are now say­ing it looks like we will have closer to 30 inches and prob­a­bly the WORST win­ter storm weather that we have EVER seen in the DC area.

Noon ET — 2 hours into the snow now. The temps are still around 34, so it’s not stick­ing to the roads much, but the temps are going to drop this after­noon. My 13 yr old asked if we could go out and shovel now so we don’t have to do it later??? Ah, not some­thing we can do in advance, but I wish we could. I give him credit for try­ing to plan ahead though. So far the kids have done Mar­t­ian Mat­ters and Pic­zos, now they are mak­ing lunch. The fight­ing isn’t too bad yet, but then it’s only been 2 hours.

10:00 am ET — When the snow started to fall. There is some snow on the ground, but that is left­over from the snow­storms we had last week­end and last Tues­day.

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