Blizzard OMG
If ya haven’t heard, there was a blizzard in DC this weekend. A little background about my “snow” life. I’d never seen more than a foot of snow before this year (unless you count skiing in CO). I grew up in Arkansas for most of my life and if we ever got enough snow to make a footprint, the city was shutting down. I moved to MD for a year before going to college and there was never any serious snow there either. At VT, I saw two snowstorms which I thought were big storms.
Cue December. We got 2.5 ft. of snow. I snowed myself in that weekend with about 8 of my friends and we got quite drunk and had a ton of fun. See this video of my dog playing in it if you are friends with me on FB. Deep Snow Video I had a great taste in my mouth about blizzards!
Cue 3 days ago. I had plans to hang with my gf this weekend and me and a few of my friends were gonna drive to blacksburg (home of the hokies) and go to a basketball game and pretend like we were still in college. Basically, my friends all backed out cause of the impending blizzard and it being pretty unlikely we’d make it home by monday morning… not to mention leaving town at the beginning of a blizzard isn’t a good idea either. I ended up deciding that I’d still go to blacksburg and hang with the GF due to previously discussed superbowl watching. Anyways, I get in the car on thursday night, hit traffic and decide I don’t want to do this drive. I turn the car around and go home, meanwhile I massively piss off the girlfriend in the process.
I get home and prepare for the blizzard. Snow starts coming down and I decide not to snow myself in with my friends again. I really had fun the last blizzard but their house is far too small for 10 people to function in. I didn’t feel like getting cabin fever again plus I really was looking forward to grinding this weekend since I have actually kinda managed to turn the losing around. I let my roommate talk me into going out Friday night to a pregame. We walk about a mile to get to a buddy’s house. We throwdown and get bombed. A pretty awesome time too. I got to the bar and then got word that my friends and gf were all doing a skype power hour. Now I dunno who came up with this idea, but it sounded amazing. Not to mention I’m like the king of skypia with how much I use it for coaching. I am pretty excited while I’m walking the mile home in the snow. I notice the snow is really starting to pile up while I was drinking. I turn onto my street finally and something doesn’t seem right. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but something just seemed off. I get to my house, unlock the door and BOOM no power. Of course, there were no lights on my street that’s what was off. And with a fell swoop of the tree any chance of me having a pretty fun blizzard were basically over.
The worst part of not having power in a blizzard isn’t the fact that you can’t use all your awesome electronics or even that the house is kept @ 40 degrees because you have no heat. No no the worst part by far is the fact that i couldn’t make coffee. Haha… ok maybe that wasn’t the worst part. Maybe the fact that our perishables in the fridge weren’t’ gonna go bad cause the house was a fridge. The house was cold. I went to bed that night in a kinda warm house without heat and I woke up to a freezing pillow on the otherside of the bed and a dog that couldn’t be more interested in spooning. I ended up reading magazines until my roommate finally woke up at 2pm. I called the power company and they said the power would be back by 3pm. I was skeptical but sure. I didn’t know at the time but apparently some 200k people lost power in the DC area so the power companies had their hands full.
One cool thing the power company did have was a phone alert message when the power was back on! I thought that was amazing since the last thing I wanted to do was walk a mile every time I wanted to find out if we still had an icebox with a foundation. Me and my roommate decided to walk a mile and go hang with one of our friends who had power. We ended up drinking pretty heavily again as that’s basically all there is to do while cooped up with 10 other people. I finally decided at 10pm that I needed to go home and make sure my dog was doing ok. Now I felt pretty bad about leaving him in the 40 degree house for any extended period of time, but there’s not much I could do about it. I figured he’d get way colder walking a mile in snow that completely surrounded him. Not to mention my friend’s place didn’t allow dogs.
I still hadn’t received any alert on my phone telling me that power was restored. On my walk however I saw 3 power trucks go rumbling by from the direction of my neighborhood. That had to be a good sign right? I get home and all the lights are on and its still freezing. I check my phone and it would appear that I missed the call from the power company while I was walking home all bundled up. It was back! and the best part is shooter (my dog) was good to go!
I have a feeling it was because I put him in his snuggie. Clearly he loves the damn thing. See picture below…
*Note I didn’t purchase clothing for my dog, it was a gift from my gf*
After the Blizzard was done snowing we got close to 30 inches of snow (the most I’ve ever seen in a storm by far). I believe that broke the record snowfall in one event for DC ever. Pretty impressive that it was the second big snowstorm in 3 months and there’s still a month to go in winter. Even with deciding not to go to tech, not snowing myself in with a bunch of friends, and getting the power knocked out. I feel like I made the best of the 2nd Blizzard of my life and realized that I really like snow. Here’s holding out for number 3! and maybe I should move to Colorado next?
I’m now looking to get some grinding in before the superbowl. I haven’t managed to do a serious squares game yet. If anyone is putting together like $100 squares *cough* Vizer *cough*, hit me up as I’d be down for a few. On that note, I will root with vizer this round. Go Colts! Peyton Manning will be the first QB to win the Superbowl and win the Superbowl Commericals in the same night. How can you not root for history?
I’m intentionally not mentioning poker much. You’ll get your update someday and hopefully its sweet.