Snowmageddon in DC

For the past 5 days DC has been getting snowed on like crazy. We have gotten around 3 feet and it has basically shut the city and surrounding area down. The snow plows stopped plowing today because it is too dangerous, and even before that the roads were very bad. Roads are covered with packed snow making it super dangerous to travel - which I had to do on Monday.

Devin's 2 week well-baby appointment was on Monday, so Jess and I packed the kids up, met some of Jess's friends for lunch, and headed over to Fort Belvoir. After driving on some perilous roads that made a 20 minute trip into a 45 minute one, we were met with a big sign that said all medical appointments had been cancelled. This morning Justin received a message that all medical appointments were cancelled for the remainder of the week. No weight check for Devin this week!

The base is now operating on emergency personnel only and Justin has gotten a bunch of days off of work now.

The plus side of the snow is that we can play in it! Justin built an igloo on our back porch using the table, some chairs and, of course, the snow. He's quite proud of it and has some water on the back porch waiting to pour over it and freeze. Also all of the weather and news stations are covering the snowstorm exclusively and have given it funny names like "The Curse of Snowbama," "Snowmageddon," and "Snowpocalypse."

The negative to all the snow is that Justin has had to shovel the driveway over 10 times now.. but I guess it's good exercise. :)