Round two on the Blizzard!

It started snowing again today around 4 pm. They are calling for 20 more inches of snow! Some people like my sisters family haven't even been able to leave their houses yet from the last snow storm! Since we have snow days I spent a couple hours on Skype with Amber, Aly, and the rest of the crew. The kids have had no school this week so far and they canceled it for the rest of the week today! We ended up getting 12 more inches of snow here.

Courtesy of WBAL

Now the work begins.Thursday will be a day for digging out again following the blizzard that pounded Maryland and most of the mid-Atlantic on Wednesday.This is now officially the snowiest winter on record for Baltimore. BWI-Marshall Airport has recorded 79.9 inches of snow so far, ecliping the old record of 62.5 inches during the winter of 1995-96.

And late Monday into Tuesday morning there's the possibility of a storm that could drop another 1 to 3 inches on the Baltimore-area.

Old Ellicott City

As most of you know Drew and I are very fond of Old Ellicott City. It's a place that has a lot of good memories for us and not to mention where we got together. So I really wanted to get down there and capture this blizzard. Drew was an amazing driver since the roads weren't in the best condition. We have a small SUV and it's only rear-wheel drive but handles really well! Some of the photos I took while we were driving (the first 7 photos). We think Drew's friend Mike made the igloo but weren't not sure, it just seems like something he would do. It felt like we stepped back into time when we got out of the car since the city was pretty empty. It really was a winter wonderland. I didn't get to spend as much time as I wanted to or walk around as much as I wanted to since it was Super Bowl Sunday and the game was going to start soon. So enjoy!

I had to run to catch this plow train. How I didn't fall on the ice I don't know. I even skip a few steps when I ran up them which were really icy. The train scared the crap out of me because as soon as I made it up a huge wave of snow went all over and made me freeze in my spot! Drew was on the steps when it got him and he said it was like a four of five foot wave. Dang it! I wish I had of been a little faster so I could have captured it!

Leaving Old Ellicott City was a little trickier than coming in!

So what do you do on a snow day?

SNOW DAY!

Besides the obvious of sleeping in and being lazy I blog. Drew and I cleaned the fish tank today which desperately needed it since algae started growing pretty bad. One of our fish named "Gretta" wasn't look-in so hot so we scrubbed the tank. It was hard to catch all the fish since we have a pretty small net. But, the cats enjoyed watching us and the fish. So, now the fish have a clean home and unfortunately Gretta didn't make it. :(

A nice clean tank!
We walked over to Chris and Andrea's apartment and it wasn't so bad. The plows came through and did a pretty good job. All our neighbours were out shoveling their cars out. Drew and I said we've never seen so many people in this community at once and thank god we pay for a covered carport and we didn't have to dig our car out! We played "Scene it"on the X-BOX and that was a really fun game. I stayed in first place for our last game! Whoop... whoop!

BLIZZARD of 2010

When Drew and I woke up I couldn't believe how much snow had fallen over the night and early morning. We woke up around 10:30 am. We are having a record breaking snow storm which they are now calling a blizzard. The nation's capital hasn't had this much snow fall since 1922 when they had 28 inches and right now they are at 22 inches, with the snow not stopping anytime soon. Here in Elkridge the news said we have 30 inches already! Drew and I are going to go out in a little while to do our on measurement. The snow looks gorgeous and I wish I had my snow pants and snowboard but, they're in storage. On the news it showed people skiing downtown. The temperature is dropping and one of the roofs at Dulles airport collapsed where they keep private jets. It looks like Drew and I wont be seeing that house showing tomorrow and it's going to get rescheduled again due to more snow. Last weekend we had to reschedule to this weekend for getting 3 inches of snow. I told Drew I wish we had one of our kids already to enjoy this and our bernese mountain dog. Who knows if we will ever get this much snow again in our lifetime. They say 180,000 people have lost power so far. Our apartment is pretty good at not losing power (knock on wood). Mom said they don't have cable or Internet but, they have power still. I'm going to enjoy this snow storm and the time being snowed in with Drew.