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[jsbowden]

Every time the NWS updates the Winter Storm Warning for our area, they increase the expected amount of snowfall. We've gone from an upper bound of five inches accumulation to an upper bound ten inches in the last twelve hours.

Bread, milk, eggs. Make sure you actually have some, because you KNOW the grocery store shelves will be denuded of them by nightfall.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_constantine/]

Twelve inches? In your area? Wow. That's a lot.

Please make sure that you have a good set of winter boots and several blankets in the trunk of your car, for those unplanned overnight stays on the interstate.

[pokeypenguin.livejournal.com]

That, in every particular as far as I can tell, is what she said.

[annewashere.livejournal.com]

I would like to present you with the TWSS Vigilance Award of the Month.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

She said to carry winter boots and blankets for snow driven unplanned interstate camping events?

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Well, of course.

[orzelc.livejournal.com]

Toilet paper. You forgot the toilet paper.

I'd prefer ten inches of snow to the single-digit (F) temperatures we had this morning. I like snow, but when I have to wear gloves inside of mittens to maintain feeling in my fingers while walking the dog, that just sucks.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I don't know about you, but we get paper products in bulk from Costco. It's not something I worry about. Non-perishables are cool like that.

[orzelc.livejournal.com]

I'm just going based on my experience of the DC area. Whenever snow was forecast, toilet paper was one of the things that stores sold out of.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

I must say, I'm quite surprised. In the two years I was in DC (1997-2000), I experienced at most 6 inches of snowfall over the course of one month, and it generally melted quickly afterwards, to the point where I decided that I had made a Terrible Mistake and had moved to someplace where ice storms were the norm, and I couldn't take that, so I moved to Chicago. Where ice storms are the norm.

Sigh.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

The funny bit about that was we got ten inches of snow in one event that very winter after you moved. I was in San Diego when it happened (robeli was annoyed at that...she was freezing in the snow and I was in SoCal), so I missed it.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

That was, I think, the same system that dumped like 20 inches of snow on Chicago one week before I got there -- one of the biggest blizzards in Chicago history -- and then it never really snowed again. Okay, that's not COMPLETELY true, but it's been disgusting winters here for about 7 of the 9 winters I've been around Chicago. Sub-zero or near-zero deep winter, too cold to snow! But then cold fronts would push through and bring the weather up to 36 long enough for freezing rain to fall and put a nice coating of black ice on everything, so that we could all DIE.

[culfinriel.livejournal.com]

Huh. In all the time I lived in Chicago, I don't remember more than one ice storm. Snow storm, yes. Also thunderstorms and occasional tornados and I think one small tremor. Oh, yes, and the flooding of the Loop, but that was a man-made disaster, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't count. Southern Indiana seemed to get a lot of ice storms, and there was at least one in St. Louis. Minnesota and Buffalo had the odd ice storm between snowfalls, but not every year. I'm sure you care deeply by now.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, right? Chicago is supposed to be all snow and black oily slush, not "slip on black ice and die".

[(Anonymous)]

I lived in Edgewood MD in 1973-74 courtesy of the US Army. I only remember one snowfall, and it might have been an inch or two.

However, I also remember several bad storms in Indianapolis in 1978. My first Subaru was used as a police car by two cops trying to get their car out of a huge snowdrift.

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

Grrr--forgot to log in.