Blizzards Hits America—By Lisette Felix

It’s the most snow recorded in the D.C, area since 1922. NBC  referred to the  pre white Christmas flakes as  “Snowpocalypse ’09 and  now this one, Snowmagaddon ’10. And it looks like it’s not over yet, as  there is more of the white stuff  predicted for next week.

  It started at approximately 12:30 pm on Friday night and didn’t stop until 6:00pm, the following day and I thought it was never going to stop. I had opened my front door, which is on a raised porch, to find that the snow had covered the first inches of the door. Scary, I started to wonder what if it didn’t stop? I would be literately ‘snowed in’. Not a good feeling even if I had got enough supplies to last a few days.

I had smirked at those ‘crazy Americans’ raiding the supermarkets, clearing the shelves of everything they could lay their hands on in the days leading up to the ‘blizzard’. All the basics were ‘gone’, and the queues were impossible, they ‘snaked’ around and around the shelves and the food isles.

I am not laughing at them now, trust me. Most of the roads are impassable, people have tried to clear the pavements, only to throw the snow into the streets; where cars are parked, inadvertently making it impossible for car owners to find their car much less dig them out. Most of us cannot get out to those stores now – it’s too tiring trudging through piles of 2-3 feet piles of unbearable snow.  Monday, the start of a new week; who will be able to get to work? Will industry grind to a halt? I doubt it…

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