Saturday morningat 10 am: about 13 hours after the snow started falling here in Arlington, VA. It is still snowing and blowing. Must be 6-8 inches, but it's hard to tell because of the blowing snow. The snow has drifted off the trunk of my car into a lovely swooping upward curve, then cuts back and down toward the license plate. No plows or trucks evident on Washington Blvd, although Metrobuses have lumbered up and down the hill. The Postal Service truck had to give up and go back to the post office. Other than those, few cars.
Big family get-together planned for this afternoon at brother Regis's house in Silver Spring, MD has become a neighborhood thingy - if you have snowshoes and live in the neighborhood, have a good time. Nephew Henry arrived on AA's last flight into National Airport about 10:30 pm and drove home to Hagerstown, MD - 3 hours. He reports it was exciting fishtailing up I-270. Nephew Andrew and his dad, Ric, are stuck in Lexington, down in the Shenandoah Valley - Ric drove down to pick him up after final law school exam Friday afternoon, but bad roads have kept them there. The grand prize goes to Paul, Nancy, and Rachel, who were driving from Florida by way of North Carolina, and are encamped outside Richmond at a Best Western since last evening.
So Joe and I have plenty of food and drink, hats and boots and gloves, a new snow shovel, all three cars are lined up in the driveway for a fast getaway when cabin fever surpasses common sense. I'm already antsy.
