Ithaka Bound » December 19 2009 http://www.ithakabound.com adventures in and around greece Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:11:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Storm of the Century http://www.ithakabound.com/2009/12/storm-of-the-century/ http://www.ithakabound.com/2009/12/storm-of-the-century/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:00:38 +0000 Beki http://www.ithakabound.com/?p=1720

Car covered in snow, washington, dc, greece, greek Islands, greece travel, storm of the century, blizzard, december 19 2009

It’s been called the storm of the century on the east coast. Eighteen inches were dumped on DC in a 24-hr period.  In Wisconsin, we used to call this a dusting.

Snow covered parking lot, washington, dc, greece, greek islands, greek travel, blizzard, storm of the century, december 19 2009

On Saturday, every single car I passed was either stuck in the snow or in the process of getting stuck in the snow.  I can’t figure out why people who live south of the Mason-Dixon line — people who’ve never driven in a foot and a half of snow — attempt such a thing.

Why not stay home drinking hot chocolate and enjoying the view from your window, or putting on some heavy duty boots and hoofing it to the store if you absolutely must go out?

As an added bonus however, extreme weather seems to bring out the best in people.  Despite all the delays and cars stuck every which way, people were doing their best to help out those stranded in snow piles and everyone seemed to be in a very merry mood.

Father and son in snow, washington, dc, greece, greek islands, greece, travel greece, blizzard, storm of century, december 19 2009

Unfortunately, traffic cops still handed out tickets to cars parked or stranded illegally.  The cop below actually cleaned the guy’s windshield off so he could place a ticket on it!

Just seems wrong…

Cop ticketing car stranded in snow, washington, dc, greece, greek islands, greece, travel greece, blizzard, storm of century, december 19 2009

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