Woman Walks 3 Miles in Blizzard to Use Sandwich Coupon

I was severely disappointed to hear that the Postal Service has suspended mail delivery today—meaning no Netflix movie for me tonight—but there's plenty of entertainment on the all-day local TV news coverage of the Blizzard of 2010.

A local NBC news station has quite the eccentric reporter, Pat Collins. He's standing outside beside Connecticut Avenue, interviewing people who venture near him in the snow. Each person who comes along is asked to insert the yard stick into an untouched pile of snow and provide us with the measurement live on TV. Thus far, the snow has measured 17 to 21" deep there in downtown D.C.

One local woman that Pat interviewed, bundled up and wearing a backpack, walked to Giant so that she could use a coupon before it expired to get a free deli sandwich. Sure enough, she came back with the sandwich a little while later and allowed Pat to dig it out of her backpack to display for the camera.

Another woman, wearing sneakers and heading for her daily jog, was interviewed regarding the plastic kitchen garbage bags, ZipLoc bags and rubber bands that she'd used to fashion some snow boots to keep her feet dry during her run.

Last night, I was watching the news when a reporter who was streaming video live via Skype or Ustream came across Senator Tom Daschle stuck in the snow. The NBC photographer got out of the vehicle and helped push the senator's car out of the snow. Of course, the video hit YouTube shortly thereafter.

Then you've got your darker humor exposed in stories like Gun-Free Snowball Fights Planned, a headline suggesting you can leave your bullet-proof vest at home this time—referencing the incident of late 2009 when an angry off-duty cop brandished a weapon during a harmless D.C. snowball fight.

Apparently, there's about 30" of snow in Howard County, Maryland, where I own a townhouse. (Since my tenant can't seem to provide the rent to me on time, there's no doubt in my mind that she won't bother to shovel the sidewalk.)

I'll be outside soon enough to take more pictures.