To most cities up North and the Northern Midwest, snow is no big deal. It’s a white fluffy annoyance that makes the sidewalks a little bit more slippery, but it’s hardly cause to shut down anything, much less schools. For us here in the Washington, D.C. area, snow is white fluffy menace that will swallow your children whole and cave in your roofs. We hardly get snow and when we do, you can hardly call it a proper snow. It’s usually an inch or two if it accumulates at all. So there’s usually little reason for our area to prepare for snow, like a good proper snow.

On Friday, they sent us home from work early. The great SNOMG of 2010 was rolling in around midday and the powers-that-be knew the commute home would be hell. Since we’re not really a snow town, we don’t know how to drive weather. Hell, we can’t even drive properly in the rain. How can we handle snow driving? Sure enough, the big beastly blizzard blew in and blanketed our completely unprepared town in a gigantic fluff of snow. And it kept on going.

Okay, so I know people in Chicago and Boulder are getting dizzy from rolling their eyes. Yes, you guys see snow like this every freaking year. But it’s been a few years since it’s snowed like this in the DC area. And more’s on its way! Starting tonight, a second SNOMG front is coming to snow us back in now that we’ve all but dug out. It’s like Mother Nature’s snowy cousins are making up for all those years they’ve ignored us. They closed work and school yesterday and today and if another foot falls as they expect tonight, I’ll probably be home for a good part of tomorrow especially if above-ground Metro service is still down. We passed by my Metro stop yesterday and didn’t see anyone clearing the tracks so my guess is they just said, “Fuck it. Let’s wait for this second round before we even bother.” If Metro is down, I can’t get to work. Hell, there are some schools that are closed through Friday!

Fortunately, Audrey and I made a giant batch of 9-bean soup, a big ass thing of chili, and a big thing of meatballs so we’ve got lots of comfy food to keep us warm. Yay food! Katsucon is this weekend and we’ve been told that the con is on unless the hotel explodes. So depending on how much snow we get tonight and how long it takes us to dig out, I may or may not be able to get to the con. We’ll see.

So anyway, I hope you snow states take this time to laugh at us. It’s slightly annoying, but absolutely hysterical to see just how unprepared our city governments are for this amount of snow.

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