When do you think the above image was snapped? During the aftermath of February's Snowmageddon? After the Snowpocalypse, perhaps? Or maybe from the storm that struck in late 2009.
Think again. It's a photograph from a blizzard that pounded Washington way back in the winter of 1899. This and other pictures make up an intriguing gallery of Washingtonian yesteryear currently featured on NBC Washington's online home.
How little things have changed. We couldn't deal with snow then, and guess what, we can't deal with snow now. But what about the advance of snow removal technology, you say, and a little invention called the snow plow? Irrelevant! Balderdash! We Washingtonians are but the pitiful objects of Zeus's frozen wrath, and there is nothing we can do to prevent it.
Well, actually, in Greek mythology Chione is the nymph in charge of snow, but let's just go with the 'we're helpless against Zeus' argument. Because that's the only way the now black mounds of snow still lining DC streets make any sense.
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