Good to know, Lowell. We're heading to Virginia next week to get away from the New Hampshire snow.

further south.  Like Florida, maybe? :)

the weather in washington dc equivalent  of raising kaine is
http://www.capitalwe...
Doug Hill has just started posting there.  I decalre it to be a 3 toilet paper roll threat!

Meanwhile, tonight at the masonic temple in alexandria, a pot luck meal at 6pm, followed by "An Inconvenient truth"

Let Rob Krupicka know if you can make it.

Join Congressman Moran and many Alexandria Neighbors to Watch the Inconvenient Truth this Sunday ? Last month I invited you to a pot-luck dinner and screening of Al Gore?s Inconvenient Truth.  So many people were interested that we have moved the location of the screening. It is now at the GW Masonic Memorial on Sunday, February 11th starting at 6PM.  We will do the pot-luck from 6-645 and will start the movie at 6:45 PM. After the movie, we?ll have a conversation about what we can do individually and as a city to mitigate the effects of global warming.  We?d love to have you attend. If you?d like to come, please RSVP to mailto:rob@krupicka....

  so we can get a good count of people.  We have plenty of space, so feel free to bring friends.

My ten year old will say : "Riiiiight" when I tell her the forecast
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Thanks for the website.  I had to retry linking by going back to the .com version.  Maybe this will work better:

http://www.capitalwe...

I like snow, since I live in a highrise and don't have to shovel it... :)

Also makes my drive in the morning faster, since the volume of traffic over the bridges into the District declines a lot...

My oldest son and I will be heading up that way Tuesday afternoon in order for him to take a German language proficiency test at the Goethe Institut in downtown D. C. the next morning.

I had planned to meet up with some of my friends on Jim Webb's staff while there on Wednesday, so now we will leave earlier in the day on Tuesday in order to make it to my brother's home outside D. C., hopefully prior to the storm's arrival.

This "Raising Kaine" blog is simply amazing, providing both political and weather prognostications on an accurate and regular basis - thanks again!

Steve

if not the heavy snow, at least the sleet and freezing rain.  Not a good move.

I'm not saying you can't drive in it.  I am saying the closer you get to DC the worst the drivers are in such weather.

However, the German language proficiency test is not inexpensive so, unless the Goethe Institut cancels the exam for weather, we'll be doing our best to make it!

Now it's... Radio Time!

Steve

Steve: You might note to them that bringing my wife to work at Dartmouth College today in Hanover, NH, I saw a "Webb" bumper sticker on a car on campus with New Hampshire plates.

Yet still so humbly normal and omnivorous, as are his followers and supporters, even in the liberal northern confines and surrounding environs of New Hampshire.

Thanks for the heads up, BQ!

Steve

Mmmmmmm, caffeinated donuts .... grgggghhhhhh

Especially since anyone who knows Jim Webb knows that he likes lots and lots of coffee in the mornings.

Can you imagine how much more effective he might be with caffeinated donuts?

Makes me shudder (in a caffeine buzz sort of way) to think...

Steve

my sister in Berryville should probably start taking precautions.  Of course, she'll just take it in stride while we here in Arlington will panic as soon as a quarter inch coats the ground and race to the supermarkets we have on every streetcorner to stock up on gallons of milk and toilet paper.  Most Arlingtonians live close enough to walk to a supermarket, 7-11, or CVS, not to mention numerous restaurants and fast food joints, but you would never know it from our reaction to a few snowflakes.

As usual, the snow will miss me completely.  If I can't build one good snowman this year, then the winter will have been wasted. :)

Plus, it'll be around 45 or 50 degrees on Tuesday here.

Oh well.

that it hits Arlington - what I wouldnt give for a snowday or two in this area...

Plus it will remind me of home where they have been getting pounded for the last week...

But my 15 year old is mad because he's supposed to have a half day on Tuesday and fears losing its benefit with a snow day. He'd be fine with a snow day on Wednesday.  But with a snow day Mom gets to sleep in another 45 minutes.  I could use one.

Yay, we finally need an actual snow day(s)!

Please just allow my son and me enough time on Tuesday to make it to my brother's home in Sterling - by around 5:00 P.M. or so - before it begins to snow.

Thereafter, the temperature can drop to absolute zero and the skies can open up wide to meet all your snowday needs, O.K?

Thanks!

Steve

Here's our driveway this a.m.  We try to explain how it just doesn't melt on the upper half, but you can see it's melted in the flat half across the bridge.  So when it's bad, we just leave a car down there and take a sled on a rope to bring things up and down.

::packs bags, heads to Kathy's house in winter wonderland::

but don't show up w/o a shovel :)

Oh, yeah; that's how they look on YOUR side of the New River Valley.  I can see them quite clearly from THIS side.

And we have similar snow scenes, too, except that I just finished removing part of mine with a shovel.

Ready as I'll ever be for Tuesday and Wednesday, I remain...

Steve

Canandaigua, New York, where they're measuring the snowfall by feet and not inches.  Bet if she sent me a pic of her house it would be just one big white blurb.

Thanks for the head's up!

...my local Trader Joe's is completely sold out of bread.

Being from Chicago, I do find it interesting to watch how Washingtonians deal with the threat of snow!

I agree with Kindler.  We lived outside Boston for eighteen years.  The year we moved we had 98 inches of snow that winter.  I'm amazed that the snow plows don't even plow the neighborhoods here EVER!!!!  I can't beieve how everyone panics.  We bought our house in Boston in 1977 after they had more than four and a half feet of snow and there was a state of emergency.  We didn't get to see our house until the end of April.  The backyard had a definite slope that we had no idea existed.  I WILL say that four wheel drive here does nothing on ICE.  I'd much rather drive in snow.  Good luck everyone.  Hope you get to sleep in on Tuesday morning.  My office is one eighth of a mile from my house so I could sled over.