OK, this counts as Real Snow

• 50, 000 people without power.
• Cars abandoned on the thruway
• Metro buses not running.
• Metro stations closed because of arcing transformers.

OK, yesterday evening counts.  Timed for maximum effect, we got 6-12 inches of snow between 4 and 10 last night.  For some of us, this followed about an hour work of sleet and small hail.

I got off early.  The Metro was strangely empty.  Was home in plenty of time to watch people running into my Safeway buying junk they didn't need.  Saw a cop car fishtail in the alley by my apartment. Watched the dismal parade of tail lights on 66 from the warmth of my apartment.

A few glimmers of lovely humanity

• a couple with cases of water and candy bars walking along the stranded cars in Tyson's handing out goodies to stranded people.
• A announcer in Hyattsville getting plopped by a bit wet snowball on the air.
• a guy in my neighborhood snow blowing everyone's entry way
• One of the ladies in my apartment putting seeds out on the from lawn this morning for our sparrows and squirrels.

Not our snow storm...

I love snow, and this one is primo snowman snow.  Heavy, wet, eminently packable.  I think Petworth needs some snow angels.