Posts Tagged ‘Snowpocalypse’
Snowpocalypsi of Yore
‘Ice mask, C.T. Madigan, between 1911-1914 / photograph by Frank Hurley’ courtesy of ‘State Library of New South Wales collection’ During this past weekend’s Snowpocalypse, when I was hunkering down in my blazing warm apartment, watching Mean Girls, eating curried pumpkin soup from Whole Foods and sipping on Macallan, I couldn’t help but wonder what [...]
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‘Boulder Bridge’ courtesy of ‘architeuthis dux’ If you guessed that our photo pool would be filled with snow pictures this week, you were right and deserve a prize. Almost as many pictures as millimeters of snow, and we rounded up some of the best yesterday. That’s not going to stop me choosing another snow picture [...]
More »Snowbank Blocking Pedestrian Crossing
Some snow plow operation in Arlington has seen fit to pile this massive snowbank right on top of a pedestrian crossing outside Clarendon Metro, forcing walkers to walk around it, on the road, dodging ice and skidding cars to get across Wilson Blvd. Hey, Arlington, I know it’s hard to figure out where to put [...]
More »K Street Snow Pandas
Photo by @caitdouglas Many thanks to Cait Douglas who sent in this image of K Street’s snow art from today. I love that we’re a city that, in addition to the traditional snowman (scarves and hats and all!) will also sculpt some sweet Snow Pandas. That’s right, Butterstick himself in snow form. Bravo, DC. Bravo. [...]
More »Best. Snowpeople. Ever.
The population in DC has grown substantially in the past few days, as scores of snowpeople have taken up residence. I met a new “neighbor” this morning, sporting lei and Santa hat, real metal buttons, candy blue eyes and, best of all, a drink complete with orange snow. Here are a few more creative snow [...]
More »Snowpocalypse Flashback: 12/18 – 12/20/2009
‘Great Blizzard of ’09′ courtesy of ‘pixelmasseuse’ Snowpocalypse! Amazingly, several of our intrepid area photogs got out and about over the weekend and captured some fantastic shots of our area under nearly two feet of snow. (Yes, I’m jealous. A little.) So while most of us lounge around on our ‘enforced’ day off today, reminisce [...]
More »Federal Government Closed Monday
” courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ Tomorrow just got a whole lot more interesting. The Federal Government has announced that they’ve closed all agencies and offices tomorrow: Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are closed. Nonemergency employees (including employees on pre-approved leave) will be granted excused absence for the number of hours [...]
More »Soviets Can Handle Snow
Soviet Safeway by maxedaperture I have been hearing from friends that grocery stores in the area are fresh out of the basics: milk, bread, and toilet paper. Oh, and by “hearing”, I mean via photos on Flickr and Facebook updates – sorry, I forgot that nobody actually speaks to each other anymore. So I decided [...]
More »Metro Closes Above Ground Service at 1pm
Metro has just announced that they will discontinue above-ground rail service at 1pm today, until the snow has stopped. That will close 39 stations until the snowfall has been managed. In addition: Metrobus and Metro Access will stop running at 1:30pm. The reason for the closures at 8″ of snow is that if the third-rail [...]
More »Ford’s Theatre Cancels “Christmas Carol”
‘DSC_3450′ courtesy of ‘Ghost_Bear’ We received this from Ford’s Theatre regarding today’s performances of “A Christmas Carol“: Ford’s Theatre has canceled both performances of “A Christmas Carol” for Saturday, December 19, 2009. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by this change, but we felt it to be in the best interest of our patrons [...]
More »Weekend Flashback: 2/27 – 3/2/09
North by East West, courtesy of mindgutter No, you read that right – the title of this week’s flashback does include today. Because you know, it’s a surprise three-day weekend for some (Not me. Boo!) and there are already some great Snowpocalypse ’09 photos showing up in our Flickr pool. (Which, if you’ve not submitted [...]
More »Neighborhood Snow Plow Check
Photo by Wayan While DC has been quite efficient in plowing the main roads, I had no trouble driving to the White House at 8am, what’s the situation in your neighbourhood? Especially now that most folks need to commute to work. Here in Petworth, New Hampshire Avenue and Upshur Street NW are both passable, if [...]
More »It is a Good Snow Day!
Photo by Wayan Driving the wife to work this morning, I am happy to say that Fenty is responding to the Snowpocalypse better than Barry did. Roads are open all the way to the White House and snow plows are everywhere. Now let’s see Obama bitch. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
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