Ringing Out the Old: A Fun-Filled List of All The Things That Tried to Do Reston In During 2011

• Road diets
  
• Sinkholes
  
• The overpowering shame of potentially having to ride the Cherry Blossom Pink Line downtown
  
• Floods
  
• Imperial stormtroopers
  
• Money magazine
  
• Earthquakes
  
• Military maneuvers
  
• Sewing machines
  
• Naughty nighties
  
• Thundersnow
  
• 130-page documents
  
• Bears
  
• Crude graffiti
  
• Carnivorous turkeys
  
• Texas donuts
  
• Foxes
  
• Tanks
  
• Powerpoint presentations
  
• Drops in lake levels
  
• Dudes with shovels
  
• Food fights
  
• Aliens
  
• Confusing maps
  
• UFOs
  
• National news reporters
  
• Zombies
  
• Coyotes
  
• Sea creatures
  
• Angry linebackers
  

Looing back, we must be far more resilient than we would have ever imagined.