So Windy!

The snow seems to have died down a bit - it is very difficult to tell because it is SO windy. They called off the snow plows earlier this afternoon because of the white-out conditions. I am watching a press conference right now on the news with the governor of Maryland. Maryland, Virginia and DC all together declared a state of emergency.

There have been more roof collapses and an entire traffic light signal at a major intersection in Alexandria fell down. A lot of people are still without power - or it finally came back on and now it is off again. How we still have power is a mystery to me. According to the Pepco map, we are in the middle of power-outage city. I'm not complaining though - we are extremely grateful to have power.

They are talking about a huge problem they are facing right now - where to put all the snow as it is plowed. They have hired contractors to haul it out but they are running out of places to dump it.

It is so incredibly windy - words can't explain how windy it is. I tried to get a picture of it but I can't quite capture it. There are these huge gusts that rattle the windows and make the place creak - and we are in a brick building! The trees are just whipping in the wind.

The car is completely covered with snow again. There is no way anyone is getting in to work tomorrow. Plowing and shoveling is futile until this wind dies down.

Jason is sick. He has a cold - don't know where he managed to pick that up - except for our short venture out yesterday, we've been cooped up in here since last Friday. I am confident we will be getting ANOTHER snow day tomorrow - and I seriously doubt the school will be open Friday either. Oh- just received my text message from the school - it is indeed closed tomorrow! I just realized Monday is a holiday - this has certainly been a unexpected house-arrest type of vacation.