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katie

the great dc blizzard of aught-six

Joe got a flat on the way home last night so I drove him to work this morning. I knew it was going to be pretty with all the snow all over everything so I took the camera. There weren't that many people out, but it seemed like everyone who WAS out had their cameras with them, too. There was an old man by the Potomac with a really old-timey camera, on a tripod, with that accordion-looking thing on it (anyone know what I'm talking about?) I bet his pictures are better than mine.

It was still really dreary and gray when I started out, around 10am:
People had their kids out building snowmen ... adorable

snowman

I schlepped over the the WWII memorial, which I haven't visited before. It has a great view of the Lincoln memorial, which is probably much nicer in the spring. Walking back to the car I noticed I had a good view of the president's house:

whitehouse

More in the responses: the Tidal basin, Potomac Park, the sun begins to come out, the Jefferson Memorial, and the sculpture garden (my favorite):

wheel

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katie [email] said at 1:38 PM 02-12-2006:
14thstbridge

the 14th street bridge from west potomac park

2nddiv

monument to the 2nd Division, near the White House

jefferson

maybe my favorite building in DC

garden

the sculpture garden was the best part

pyramid

and then back to stinky old virginia - this is how much snow we got in falls church:
myhouse

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josh [email] said at 2:08 PM 02-12-2006:
intense. 380 next time, please

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katie [email] said at 2:10 PM 02-12-2006:
i used the code! wtf??

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amanda [email] said at 3:29 PM 02-12-2006:
My parents and I were laughing earlier because the public radio news said that many schools in the D.C. area will probably still be closed on Monday. D.C.'s reaction to snow never ceases to entertain me.

I remember The Corcoran shutting down for 1" of snow one time and everyone was freaking out and buying bottled water and toilet paper when I stopped at the store on the way home from class. I never understood that. A snowstorm will not delay toilet paper shipments by more than two days and if that many people don't have enough toilet paper/kleenex around their houses to make it for that long, there is something wrong. As for the water, um...there is water falling from the sky in frozen form. Even if a pipe bursts you will be able to survive for a day or two without having 10 gallons of bottled water on hand.

I also remember being very annoyed at people needlessly braking while driving down hills on packed snow/ice.

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reggie [email] said at 8:17 PM 02-12-2006:
Yeah, DC's reaction to snow is very amusing. Despite the fact that this crap comes down EVERY SINGLE YEAR around this same time of the year people still act like it's the end of the world.

I went to grocery store Friday night, mainly cuz I hadn't been to the grocery store in a while and stood in the "express" line for about 30 minutes. Fifteen items or less, feh!

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rick [email] said at 9:47 AM 02-13-2006:
During the Great Blizzard of Aught-Three, the city was caught with its pants down. I read later that DC had bought a snow melter from some Canadian province and it broke down within a few hours. I got to stay home a day from work and I got my car stuck on Channing Street less than fifty feet from where I had parked it. I had to ask neighborhood children to help me push it out.

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