I have been in DC for a number of these 2'+ snow falls and it tends to
jam the place up for quite a while. A lot depends on what comes behind
it. Sometimes it warms up and things actually get worse because it
still freezes over night so you get black ice. My Firebird wore a
little reminder of that until after I sold it.
If it snows again it even gets uglier and people just stay home for
days.
I got propane, so I can bbq. Whenever I see a Dominion Virginia Power truck in the
neighborhood I go thank the guy. We've not had an outage over a few hours since I
moved here in 1995 (knock on wood).
Greg's comment about him being in DC for a "number" of these 2'+ snow
falls got me curious, so I did some reading. According to this website
which lists the 10 worst DC area snow storms in history, the last time
the DC area had over 2 feet of snow (in a single storm) was in 1922.
All others on the "worst" list are less than 2 feet, most of them in the
14" to 17" range. So, either Greg is a lot older than he admits or he's
counting the results of multiple storms. :-)
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