It's February - where's the snow?

So, I was thinking this morning about my next blog post and what the topic would be, and I decided to write about the fact that it is February and supposed to be mid-40’s to mid 50’s for the next week or so. Although I like the warmth, it just doesn’t seem right to be this warm in February! When I logged into Facebook, it brought up my “memory” from six years ago – and it was a picture of a car covered in snow. Which got me thinking about other times when we go lots (or a little) snow.

This picture is from February, 2010. We called it “Snowmageddon”. So.much.snow! We had two really big (for us) storms that year and there was snow everywhere. Half of the parking lot spaces were unusable because they had to pile the snow somewhere! Let’s just say that even though the DC area is technically in the North, we don’t have the snow removal capacity that New England has! We lived on a cul-de-sac and couldn’t get out of our driveway for days because there was 3-4 feet of snow on the ground and our street was not exactly the first to get plowed!

Flash back to 1989. Jenni was almost two and we moved from New Jersey to Florida. In December, we bought a house in Orlando, which had an above-ground pool in the back yard. David was determined to have a picture taken of him in our pool on Christmas Day so he could send it to our relatives (in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Montana & Wisconsin) and torment them. Christmas Day arrived and IT BEGAN TO SNOW! IN ORLANDO! WHAT??? Everyone turned on their heat at the same time and blew out all the transformers. No one had electricity except for a few restaurants and hotels that had generators. So we all went to Denny’s, which had a generator (and a huge coffeepot set up in the entrance for people while they waited for a table) and had breakfast. By the time we were ready to cook Christmas dinner, the electricity was back on, but there was no pool picture that day! For some reason, I have no pictures of that snow on Christmas day, but my photo albums are full of snowy pictures from many other years!

I don’t know when we will get more than a dusting of snow this year, but I’m looking forward to it!

Stay warm,