Blizzard of 2010 – Call for photos
Photo: Rus McLawhorn
Please send us your photos of your house, your street, the kids enjoying the snow, the dig out! Mount Washington is so beautiful blanketed in white. I also love the beautiful quality of the neighborhood when everyone gets outside together for a slow day – to ski through the neighborhood, to sled down the hills, and to enjoy neighbors while digging out. Please help us capture this all by sending us your photos. You can email them directly to sarah@mtwpost.com and I will post them in the gallery below (at least as long as we have internet because as you can see in one of the photos, the line that brings internet to the house is now down across the yard and covered in snow). Check back over the next two days for updates! Oh, and if you want to write a description of how you are spending the snowy weekend, please do that in the comments below (it will not appear immediately, but should show up shortly after we receive it). To start you off…some photos from just before dawn (taken mostly from inside as we cannot open our front door!).
Update – 1:30 pm: Pictures are rolling in (see them in the gallery below). Also, some neighbors are sharing what they are up to today – Love that!
From Cecilia Meisner - Cooking like a madwoman: roasted a turkey breast and made brownies last night, waffles this morning, meatloaf in the oven, contemplating bread…
Sounds great – we have done fresh muffins for breakfast, homemade pizza for lunch … plans for lamb chops for dinner and pulled pork for tomorrow….SK
If our experience is any indication, we have not seen much action on our street. We are still inside the house and it looks like most neighbors are also. Perhaps today will be the day of pictures taken from the porch and tomorrow will have more action shots!
If anyone has recipes they want to share with neighbors, feel free to send those to me also (with attribution) and I will post them.
Update – 7:45 pm: There are lots more pictures below (and check back soon for another post for pictures for tomorrow). I have also received this update from Joan Goldman:
Here is how we started our morning:
My daughter was playing Guitar Hero and I said I had never seen it before much less played. So she gave me a lesson, and started me on the slowest setting. It was hard, but after a few minutes I thought I was good enough to go to the regular setting. Boy was I in for a shock. Suddenly the notes came flying at me and I was quickly booed offstage. That ended my guitar hero career-at least for today.
We went outside once the snow stopped ~4pm. Not easy to get to the street, but we found a few folks out walking dogs and snow shoeing. Saw 2 plows heading west on Ken Oak, and we asked to please come down our side, on the east side, but alas, they didn’t. So one side is clean and the other is not that passable.
Finally dug out a path from the house to the street. Tomorrow we work on digging out the cars.
Our neighbors on the north side of Ken Oak lost power early this afternoon. As of now, they are still in the dark and the cold.
Thank you for the updates. We also went out in the afternoon to start the digging out – but did not get far. Sulgrave Avenue is still snow covered (at least in the 2300 block).
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I have never seen so much snow in my life! Remember to take care of your neighbors, especially the elderly. Great pictures!
I thought I would share the recipe we use for pulled pork (requires a crock pot):
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 18 hours
Equipment: Crock pot
4 lbs. pork shoulder or butt
2 large onions
1 cup ginger ale
18 oz. (plus more for serving) barbecue sauce (if you like a North Carolina-style vinegary sauce, we’ve been using — and loving — the North Carolina style sauce from Whole Foods)
Rolls
Slice one of the onions and put it in the bottom of the crock pot. Put the pork roast in the crock pot on top of the onions. Slice the other onion and put it on top of the pork. Pour in the ginger ale. Cook on LOW for 12 hours.
Remove the meat and onions and discard the liquid in the crock pot. Using two forks, shred the meat. Put the meat and onions back in the crock pot and add the barbecue sauce. Cook on LOW for 4-6 hours.
Serve on rolls.
Shoveling tip — spray your snow shovel blade with Pam or vegetable oil and the snow won’t stick while you shovel.