Some call it Snow­poca­lypse and Pres­i­dent Obama calls it Snow­maged­don.  This week­end the Wash­ing­ton Area received about 30 inches (76cm) of snow in most areas and Dulles Inter­na­tional Air­port recorded 32.4 (82.3 cm) of snow, break­ing the Jan­u­ary 1996 Knicker­bocker Storm record of 23.2 inches (58.9 cm) of snow.   This is impress­ing con­sid­er­ing that Wash­ing­ton, accord­ing to the National Weather Service, has got­ten more than a foot of snow only 13 times since 1870.

As for me, I was stuck in my house in Arling­ton, VA with some friends and we ven­tured out on to Lee High­way and I-66 (pic­ture below on I-66 on-ramp) until a police offi­cer screamed at us to go back.  When the snow storm died down, I dug up my car and took it for a spin or should I say a cou­ple of spins  (lit­er­ary).   Other friends where stuck in Falls Church, VA watch­ing 2 girls one cup and oth­ers in Wash­ing­ton DC.

Even though I did not see it, I heard that hun­dreds of peo­ple crowded in Dupont Cir­cle in D.C. for a large snow­ball fight (pic­ture below) and that Con­necti­cut Ave. became a ski­ing avenue.  Also, along the National Mall skiers lapped the Relect­ing Pool, a tree limb fell on one of the Pres­i­den­tial SUV motor­cade car­ring mem­bers of the press, and that some peo­ple where using the steps of the Lin­coln mon­u­ment as a slope to slide down on.  Here are some pic­tures that I took, except for the snow­ball fight in Dupont, which a friend who lives there took.   One pic­ture shows a car com­pletely buried in snow and two other pic­tures show how my bal­cony (a.k.a the Bas­tardales lounge)  looked like after the storm.