Yep Ed... but this snow will totally blow the standard budget for dealing with snow... and this one will begin (ooops.. is beginning)... as rain, then freezing rain, then 8-10" of snow in an area where many seldom have driven in snow. The Wash DC metro area simply can't salt, sand & plow fast enough to clear roads. The thing is, it doesn't stay Winter here for many weeks on end... it warms, freezes, snows, melts over & over... sometimes in just days, leaving roads and walks in messes. Minnesota and Montana & Buffalo are all set up to cope every Winter.


We are semi-fortunate that this begins on a Sunday night and will cause many closings of school, business and government BEFORE everyone gets there and can't get back.... or all try to get home at the same time. We've had 3-4 shopping days warning.

Very unusual Winter... about 100,000,000 people are tired of it... another 100 million are VERY tired of it.