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Alexandria, Va. snow fall total for January 27, 2011

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The first “big” snow storm of 2011 left 5½ inches of snow in Alexandria’s West End. More may have fallen, but it appears there was some freezing rain at the end of the storm.
Shoveling out of the parking lot took about 15 minutes and I helped push a Mitsubusi Eclipse out of [...]

Alexandria snowfall total 2 1/8 inches

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The first snow storm of the 2010-2011 season dropped 2 1/8 inches of beautiful white power onto an already frozen ground in the West End. The early rush hour yesterday was not too bad, but getting out of Tysons Corner was a bit of a chore.

Every year, I celebrate the first snow [...]

Mall of America Field roof collapse videos

While I debate which was the bigger collapse, the Metrodome roof or the Washington Redskins field goal unit, check out these videos:

Interestingly, the corporate name of the venue, Mall of America Field, is barely being used in coverage, except by me of course. Let me give a big welcome to Web searchers using the correct [...]

Minnesota steals snowmageddon name, punished with collapsed Metrodome roof

I slam Minnesota for cultural misappropriation of Snowmageddon and post videos of Vikings meltdowns as revenge.

Snowmageddon’s last stand

TYSONS CORNER, Va. — We are over five weeks past Snowmaggedon and there remains just a few reminders of it, like this snow pile below a parking lot. In my condo complex in Alexandria, the snow finally went away for good on Monday. I thought for sure we’d have more left over, but I’m not [...]

The twisted world of Calvin & Hobbes snowmen

The Calvin and Hobbes Snow Art Gallery (hosted by Anglefire, wow that still exists!) is just the thing needed for a day like today.
Hopefully, people are going to use this as an inspiration after all of this snow.
H/T Eric McErlain on Facebook
©MMX William F. Yurasko

Snoverkill snow measurement — 22 inches total?

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Yesterday morning, I took a measurement of the snow on the ground — 19.5 inches. This evening, my brother Christopher took a measurement and it came back 22+ inches. It has been snowing all day long and certainly more than 3 inches has fallen, but do to the blizzard conditions I cannot [...]

Snowmageddon total for Vienna, Va. 21.5 inches

VIENNA, Va. — Our Vienna Bureau Chief (aka WHY or Dad) sent in this photo from his backyard (table top I believe). 21.5 inches is the official total over there. In Alexandria it was 20.5, so they win the snow challenge I guess.
I just dug out one of our cars. That was exciting. I will [...]

Final Snowmageddon total for Alexandria, Va. – 20.5 inches

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The final total for Snowmageddon is unchanged from my afternoon update — 20.5 inches of snow on top of the 2.5 already on the ground. I must have gotten out there right before it stopped.
This is a record breaker, but not the three feet that was being hyped, though I understand other [...]

Snowmageddon! 20.5 inches of fresh snow in Alexandria, Va. at 2:30 p.m.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The latest snow total for Snowmaggedon is in — 20.5 inches of fresh snow from this storm. Of course, that is on top of the 2.5 inches leftover from the previous storm. It is still coming down steadily here in the West End.
This is officially the most snow I have ever seen [...]

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