Here’s a WHC Insider look as to what the capital area looked in the snow storm of 2009.

Many woke up Saturday morning to over a foot of snow on the ground and the sky filled with flurries of snowflakes that didn’t stop coming down till the wee hours of Sunday morning.  This became an instant snow day for many as  buildings closed, and events were canceled everywhere from the Verizon Center to the Kennedy Center.

Inside, many huddled by fires and watched the news reports on TV, but many also went to their computers dubbing this storm a “Snowpocalypse”  and on Twitter the trending hashtag became “#snOMG”.  As the first flakes came down many posted pictures of the first few inches and eventually covered cars and complaints of having to shovel out driveways.  Social media has made it possible for us to be snowed in together. Some people even took to the streets and braved the storm to check out what was going on.

Some just wanted to get pizza.

Families took to the hills and sledded on boards and inflatable tubes of all sizes.  Some were even able to build a snow ramp! (See photo slide show above) Others took to the streets to dig out the 15 plus inches of snow from around their cars.

Fortunately, many won’t have to drive those cars into work as the the federal government has closed for Monday.

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