Snowiest Winter Ever

The Super Storm 0f 2010 hit the D.C. Area Feb. 9-10 with over 31 inches of snow

The Winter of 2009-10 has been nothing short of historic. With a Blizzard hitting the area in mid-December 2009, everyone thought that would be our big storm of the season. Then the Super Storm in February came. The December storm dumped 26 inches of snow on the ground, no miniscule amount. The February 2010 storm: 31 inches of snow with an additional 12 inches piling on top of it Feb. 9-10. Over 3 1/2 feet of snow. The result: shoveling for 7 straight days, schools closed for the week, the Federal Government shutting down early Friday, Feb. 5 and not reopening until Friday, Feb. 12 on a 2 hour delay.

Now I love winter and snow (I was born in December) but this was historic and scary. Most people lost their power with this winter storm. I was lucky to have my power on the entire time. The other costly results with this storm was snow budgets ballooning to shattering levels, not having enough equipment to remove the snow, the heavy snow causing damage to roofs that eventually caved in or caused leaking and trees collapsing due to the weight of the snow. My parents even had a tree that was over 30 years old in between their house and the neighbors that came down.

Are we done with this extreme winter weather? Experts at Accuweather.com say unfortunately no as a storm is set to form that will hit us sometime this week or next. With the arctic cold air coming back this week from the north, be prepared and stay warm D.C. area.