Deepest snow in DC's recorded history!

I swore I wouldn't put up any more SNOW pictures, but it has been SO incredible for us, with our second blizzard in two days, that I'm just uploading my most recent pictures from today, February 10, for the record.
Some people have lost power for 24-72 hours. Others have been caught with not enough food at home and the supermarket shelves are stripped bare of milk, eggs, bread, bananas, all fruit and vegetables.
We have been most fortunate so far.
Although we have the equivalent of several large elephants' weight in snow on our flat bedroom roof, we have only had a few leakages in our sunroom where the icicles seem to be melting INTO the top of our door! So there are a few newspapers on the floor to catch all the drips, but otherwise we remain warm, dry and our bellies full. As I write this blog, I can hear the blizzard's howling winds and can see the snow blowing horizontally in between our house and the neighbour's house!

As the Washington Post puts it: "It's not often we witness a 100-year-plus record fall. Perhaps it's fitting it went out in such extreme fashion today. As reported here earlier, National Airport's preliminary (2 p.m.) snow total of 54.9" for the 2009-2010 winter thus far puts D.C. above the previous high mark of 54.4" set way back in 1898-1899."
[Note that National Airport is NOT in DC, and is actually next to the river just in front of where we used to live in Virginia, and the snow is not as high as in DC proper! K.]


Here are three pictures of the snow's height at around 16.00 today, 10/2. The fence is about my height, to give you some idea!
And I'd already taken the snow off the bird feeders yesterday, so what you see here is just from today. Notice the icicles hanging over our (sunroom?) door!







This is a cute picture through the front door's frosted glass!



Here's Walter at breakfast. We're well insulated in our house. Good radiators and double glazing!



Outside, the birds must have it pretty bad. Here's one of the several cardinals that inhabit our garden, at the height of the snowstorm today, taking shelter in our holly tree...






Stay warm and well!