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Frozen Water or Snowpocalypse? Washington Descends Into Panic With Approaching Storm

This is getting a bit out of control, folks. I know that I am a Chicago native with a snow attitude but people in this town are doing everything short of sacrificing their young to please the Snow God.

I just came back from the store where people seem to be preparing for the final judgment. One woman had two carts (which she was pushing and pulling) filled with toilet paper and water. I wanted to do an intervention and mention the likely possibility of spring.

If you turn on the radio, it is filled with assurances that radio stations will remain active throughout the “coming emergency.” Not only that, police are reporting an increase in auto accidents — BEFORE A FIRST SNOW FLAKE HAS FALLEN. I am waiting for conservative members of Congress to demand snowboarding meteorologists to force them to tell us the whole truth and when we can expect warm weather.

I am looking out the window at the first flakes now falling. My kids are watching cartoons and all is well. I have not even begun to look at the kids as foodstuffs if we run low on food. For those regulars in the area, the Turley blog will remain active through “the coming emergency” though the host is likely to begin consumption of Bloody Marys in . . . five, four, three, two . . .

93 thoughts on “Frozen Water or Snowpocalypse? Washington Descends Into Panic With Approaching Storm”

  1. The snow god appears to have paid me back for by insolence. Are Internet access is down except for my cellphone. I will post later in the day when it I’d restored. We have around two feet of snow outside.

  2. Do you have a preference for how people die?

    People were going to die today regardless of the weather.

    It’s sad but it’s also a part of life.

    I’m sorry you’re stuck in this situation but if you can’t see the absurdity of some guy bitching out a blog viz his generator-driven computer then I don’t know what else to say.

    “I’ve got a shotgun a rifle and a four-wheel drive…”-Hank Jr.

  3. Don’t throw a snowball at a DC detective if you make it to town.

    Feline AIDS:

    Number One Killer of domestic cats.

  4. Oh and one more thing.

    The roads are impassable, and we are buried in.

    And we are a long way from the city, and any emergency services or hospitals.

    And that means anyone getting sick, injured or needing an ambulance is effectively screwed. Because they can’t get to us. They’re snowed in too.

    In other words, the old person who is now stressed because he\she is in the dark, alone and cold who starts having heart palpitations is stuck until they can get to them. And that can take more than a day.

    Funny stuff huh?

  6. Our power is out. We’re keeping warm but with the power out this early it may be days before it is back up.

    The house gets awfully cold without a heater. Fireplace and portable heaters are fine but they run out of fuel if the power stays out too long.

    So no, we here in a rural area are not laughing. We’re worried about roof collapses, trees collapsing, running out of fuel for our generators and heaters, etc. Most of us like myself have supplies, but you can only keep so much fuel on hand. With the power out like this so early into the storm it could be days or longer before we’re up. We’ve got over two feet of snow already up here, and counting. Its going to be a while before they get us back up. We have to survive until then on our own.

    Being prepared is what we do, but you’d be surprised how cold it can get out here as compared to the city when your powers out for days on end, which we know it will be since it went out so early into the storm.

    I realize you have to laugh in life and no ones crying over here. But the storm hasn’t killed anyone we know. Yet.

    We’re prepared and ready, but I am struggling to see what is so amusing about a storm that has taken the life of a father and son in Virginia today, and is most likely going to take more lives before this night, and tomorrow are over.

    Do you have any idea how many elderly shut ins are out here? They often run out of firewood and just sit there with a blanket, freezing to death. What’s funny about that?

    We’re not cold, yet but we soon will be. We’ll keep from freezing because I keep plenty of firewood on hand but we’ll run out of fuel in a day or so, and a fireplace doesn’t keep you “warm and cozy” without a heater backing it. It keeps you from freezing but with no running water, no heat, and cold temperatures and a lot more snow coming we’re in for a rough time as the fuel starts running out. And with these winds, we’re worried about our roofs, which have snow and ice accumulating on them by the minute.

    City folks I guess enjoy these things. Its easy to I imagine from your Georgetown brownstone. But out here we’re prepared, but there are some things you cannot prepare for. Like a collapsed roof.

    So excuse me for not sharing in your humor. I see nothing funny about this storm, which is going to no doubt take more lives before the night is over. What’s so funny about that?

    Katrina was just rain and wind after all. Lots of it. This is just snow and wind after all. Lots of it. And we’ve got a lot more of it coming at us than you have down there in the city.

    Sorry, but as I sit here by candlelight and generator power I and look at the snow barreling down, and think of all the old people out there who are shut ins, cold, some alone, I just have a hard time finding anything funny about it.

    Anyway I said I’m going so I’m going. I just thought it was worth mentioning that power is out right now for 87,501 people in Pennsylvania, and thousands more across the DC metro region. And while most of us will weather the storm fine, assuming a tree doesn’t come down on our homes while we’re in them, or our roofs don’t collapse, but there are some people out there who might not make it.

    Either way its no laughing matter and you’d think attorney’s would show more judgement than mocking a storm thats taken at least two lives today that we know of, and will no doubt take more before its over.

    Did you guys think Katrina was funny too?

    If that’s funny to you, then have at it.

  12. Dude!

    Hey, maybe ThirtyPercenter needs to go be a Navy Corpse-Man.

    They don’t laugh at anything.

  14. I thought two-weeks notice was considered customary.

    Well, I guess he did say he was packing it in at least two weeks ago.

    Everyone be sure to give him a good reference to his next blog.

    Does anyone know if there is a “rolls his eyes” emoticon?

  16. “By NAFEESA SYEED, Associated Press Writer Nafeesa Syeed, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 16 mins ago

    WASHINGTON – Life in the nation’s capital ground to a halt Friday as steady snow fell, the beginning of a storm that forecasters said could be the biggest for the city in modern history.

    A record 2 1/2 feet or more was predicted for Washington, where snow was falling heavily by evening and forecasters warned that blizzard conditions were on the way.

    Big amounts of snow were expected elsewhere throughout the Mid-Atlantic, and authorities already blamed the storm for hundreds of accidents and the deaths of father-son Samaritans in Virginia.

    A few thousand people in West Virginia lost electricity because of the storm and more outages were expected. A hospital fire in D.C. sent about three dozen patients scurrying from their rooms to safety in a basement. ”

    Yea, that’s funny stuff.

    😐

    The father and son death was a real knee-slapper.

    And elderly people trapped in their homes without electricity in freezing temperatures?

    What a hoot.

    Look, I wrote the professor and told him I’m through. This crowd here is clearly way above my meager brainpower. I’m done here.

    You guys enjoy your laughs and be sure to call the widow of the father and son this storm killed in Virginia today.

    You can explain to her what a joke this storm really is and how she shouldn’t worry about it. I’m sure your levity will help her overcome her grief.

    Now excuse me. I have to go help remove the tree from my neighbors back porch.

    Almost hit the living room, ha ha. They could have been killed.

    But hey, what’s a few snowflakes?

    Bye.

  19. Haha, you should see the swarms of folks around Arlington. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! AAAAAHHHHH!!! A SNOWFLAKE LANDED ON ME! I’M DOWN! GO ON WITHOUT ME! AAAAAHHHH, AGAIN!!!

    Okay, calming down. I’ve prepared for this. Milk, Check. Water, Check. Bread, check. Toilet pap….TOILET PAPER…no…..NOOOOO!!!

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