The disappearing teddy
Cool time-lapse (called snow-lapse) photography here during the previous D.C. blizzard. The advancing one could be worse. But the teddy already is a soggy mess.
Posted: February 9th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Scribbles, Weather/Climate.
Tags: blizzard, D.C., time-lapse photography
Comments
Comment from Veeshir
Time February 9, 2010 at 6:35 PM
I just checked, the gov’t's closed again tomorrow.
Wow. If the snow is as bad as it was, they might not reopen this week.
Comment from Dick Stanley
Time February 9, 2010 at 8:55 PM
Been reading the comments at the WaPo’s Weather Gang site:
Sounds not so pleasant. You might have seen this about the D.C. plows being broken:
Even Megan McArdle at the Atlantic is finding things difficult with empty grocery shelves, but her commenters are chiding her for being a wimp. Easy for them to say:
Comment from Veeshir
Time February 10, 2010 at 7:51 AM
Oh, definitely wimpy.
The problem is, the whole area is wimpy.
I’m not downplaying this deal, it’s freaking ugly, but the first storm would not have paralyzed any similarly sized, northern city.
This city was shut down three days later. The snow stopped on Saturday and the city was still closed on Tuesday.
Buffalo probably wouldn’t have had a snow day on Monday. They just don’t do snow removal here. It’s all solar and the sun’s not being cooperative.
Lots of non-government people have been working all week. My buddy lives about 30 miles away and has had to go to work in Alexandria every day.
Comment from Veeshir
Time February 9, 2010 at 6:34 PM
Took the dog for a walk, it’s already ugly out there.
Mostly because the previous snow wasn’t gone, a lot of streets and sidewalks are still just about 5 inches of rammed snow. Now, they’re covered with another couple inches of snow and it just started. It’s hard to walk because it’s so slippery.
Even where the road or sidewalk is clear it’s surrounded by really high snowbanks.
Tomorrow’s going to be ugly. I don’t know if they’ll be able to keep the gov’t closed again, but I’m going to have to walk the 2 miles to work, I don’t think the buses will be running.
In Alexandria, the Dash buses (the one I take) stopped running at 7. Even today they were on a Saturday schedule.