Snowpocalypse 2010

OK, my Fake Winter post did anger DC. Because now we have at least a foot of snow and more coming down. It is fabulous. Haven't seen snow the likes of this since my days in Minneapolis. But my full Snowpocalypse 2010 story starts on Tuesday afternoon with a call to my mom. I can be kinda ridiculous sometimes and this was no exception:

Daughter: "Mom, I need you to send my snow boots to me. We are supposed to get a big snowstorm this weekend."
Mom: "Can't you just buy some new ones? Is it really worth it to ship them?"
Daughter: "Why would I buy a new pair of snow boots when I have a perfectly good pair back in Illinois?"
Mom (who *hates* going to the Post Office): sigh "Ok."

So Thursday comes along and there is no snow. In fact, there were not even clouds in the sky. And yet... Happy Hour got cancelled on account of the "impending snowstorm." Two work meetings for Friday got rescheduled. My boss rescheduled her long weekend trip to Florida. Friday morning I wake up to... no snow. My monthly alumnae brunch on Saturday gets cancelled because of the non-existant snow. And yet... DC has declared a Snow Emergency. Lunch time comes and goes with no snow. And finally, in the afternoon the first flurries arrive.

Then I begin obsessively checking to see if the mail has arrived. It usually gets to my apartment around 4 pm. 5 pm, no mail, no snow boots, and a few inches already on the ground. 6 pm comes and goes, no mail. At 6:30 pm I give up and get ready to go out. At 7 pm I get in the elevator to leave my apartment and the front desk has put up a note that they are closed for the evening. "Oh great," I think. Even if the mail does arrive I won't be able to get it. I walk out into my apartment lobby to see... the mailman! And the person at the front desk is just getting ready to leave... but still is able to give me the package that is my snow boots!

They were just as warm and fuzzy as I remember them to be. When I left my apartment wearing them Friday, there were just a few inches on the ground. But when I went home late Friday night, there was a foot of snow! Snowpocalypse 2010 had begun.