Our back deck.

Snowmageddon 2010 in DC, Scrappinmichele's Tree

This tree used to be double the size.

The front yard.

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Wordless Wednesday: snOMG, Snowmageddon in DC originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

Random Thought #1

Let’s start with the Super Bowl commercials. Which one was your favorite? I loved the Google commercial and I think the reason it was my favorite was because it was so simple, yet said so much. No fancy effects, no pantless people, no jokes, no silly characters, just a very simple, yet quite effective commercial. If you missed it, here it is:

What do you think? Was it effective?

Random Thought #2

If you followed my Snowmageddon Day 1 and Day 2 posts, then you know we got 3 ft of snow over the weekend. In an average year, we get 22 inches. We got 36 inches in 2 days. That is a LOT for our area (well probably for any area). And if that wasn’t enough snow for us, today is Snowmageddon part 2. We are supposed to get at least another foot of snow. YES, I said that correctly ONE FOOT of snow on top of the THREE FEET we have. My kids are out of school for the rest of the week (officially per the county, not my guessing). I will do another post of Snowmageddon part 2. Watch my video of the progression of Part 1.  Wednesday is supposed to then get really really windy (40+ mph) and we’ll have the 4 ft of snow on the ground swirling around. We didn’t lose power with round 1 and I’m just hoping we don’t lose it during part 2.

Random Thought #3

Cabin Fever. Ever have it? How do you deal with it? I didn’t realize I had it until I went out of the house. When my hubby got home from Germany. (Side story: Jason was stuck in Germany during part 1 of our snowmageddon. He flew from Amsterdam to Frankfurt and then all the flights from Europe to DC were canceled. He spent 2 nights in a hotel by the airport in Frankfurt waiting to get home. He finally got home on Sunday night. Dulles was letting international flights land.) So, anyways, he told me he was taking me and the kids OUT on Monday to anywhere. I didn’t want to go, but he made me. I’m so glad I did. The roads were horrible, but I really needed it. We just went to Target, Wal-Mart, mall and the grocery store, but seeing something other than my home was nice.

Now we will be stuck in the house again for at least 2 days, if not more. Jason will be here too so that will definitely help. There will be 2 adults to 4 kids, so they can whine to him too. I’m just running out of ideas on what to do.

What do you do when you get stuck in your house for days?

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Before they storm the media was preparing us for the worst, but I think I would have been scared if I saw this guy BEFORE the storm.

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The Biggest Snowstorm of My Life (aka Snowmageddon) in Video originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

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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This is our first snowfall of the winter season. We ended up with about 3 inches and the kids had 2 days off of school. Megan is sitting on the computer playing on Club Penguin.

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