@shellfell, If it were just a question of deep snow I wouldn’t worry, but DC is forecast to have 50-60 MPH winds at the height of the storm. Add in heavy snowfall and it’ll make it pretty much impossible to see. Does your son have experience with blizzards?
Yes, but the height of the storm won’t come until Saturday. Going out on Friday night – if you can avoid driving – probably won’t be too bad.
If there is a blizzard, the state will shut down and the basketball game will be cancelled.
I can’t believe folks in DC were stranded in cars from such little snow, wow. I urged my kid to go out yesterday and get food. She actually listened to me, and texted that she was glad she didn’t procrastinate. She was hoping classes would be cancelled today, no such luck.
I guess it was really icy? A friend posted on Facebook that she had the scariest drive home ever.
Below freezing temps, untreated roads, cars compacting snow into ice. Voila! Instant commuting disaster.
The surrounding area is rather hilly, unlike other urban areas such as Chicago. No snow plows to speak of – and quite frankly, a waste, for a once-a-decade snow storm.
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When we’re dead.
Yesterday my town had a forecast of 90% chance of over six inches of snow on Friday. Today, the forecast is no snow on Friday, and only a 50% chance of < 1 inch on Saturday PM. Thank goodness.
Same here. Early in the week, this was going to be the “big storm”. Now we are anticipating clouds and wind.
There are plenty of snow plows in the DC metro area jurisdictions. Problem was they didn’t think they needed to prepare the roads yesterday due to the forecasted dusting with the results we see. We seem to go through this every year with the first snowfall. When the snow fall starts with a rush hour this kind of thing happens more often than not.
@NoVADad99 my Ohio kid is very familiar with treating roads, and she agrees with your statement. She said they dont pre-treat the roads and chaos ensues.
daughter’s school is delaying opening for another day . She could go back tomorrow early , but that just doesn’t seem right to do.
The forecast keeps changing for our area in terms of snowfall amounts , or who you watch / listen to. Some say 4-12 " some say 12-18 "
I guess we will know once it is over. 
Stiil really concerned about what impact this is going to have on our coastal towns. No one seems to change how they perceive the flooding potential to be. Thats scares me
When I lived in Bethesda, we used to blame snow confusion on the number of people living in the DC area who were really from other parts of the country and the world, had no experience with the winter weather. They used to close schools even if it just dusted.
As for the northeast, mcat, Boston is supposed to be spared the worst of it. Maybe 4 inches.
I may go hiking on Weds, since there’ll be a heat wave, maybe 40 degrees.
I’m coming home tonight and my office workers are in tizzy mode. I won’t close until I see it actually snows. We have our share of henny penny alerts to only get rain or a dusting. I’m east of the beltway and we tend to get way less. I’m hoping to have a half a day, but we’ll see in the morning. My office employees are fairly local and would probably follow public school closings if I let them.
Rule of thumb is if I close the office it’s a paid day off, if I open they can stay home, but use leave. I will often do later openings or leaving early too.
This may, in fact, be the purpose of death. Otherwise, the world would be full of hundreds of generations’ worth of people all worrying about the well-being of their offspring.
There’s a blizzard warning, you know. Can’t your office employees work from home?
I work in Montgomery County. Our company never closes for weather. Never. But nobody minds because the company has an extremely liberal work from home policy. Everybody in my group already has permission to work from home tomorrow. And if the roads aren’t in good shape on Monday, nobody’s going to object if we work from home then, too. Most of us won’t have to waste even a single hour of leave time on this storm unless our power goes out.
Yes, my son does have experience with blizzards. He grew up in CT. He was also in DC during the 2010 storms, and walked from GW to the Verizon Center then, so maybe he’s already earned his Darwin award (except he survived). That’s also the reason he thinks he’ll be fine.
Unfortunately, the game he’s going to is supposed to be on ESPN2, so I’m assuming it would take alot to cancel it. I’m just concerned that it might not be too bad when he gets to the game, but in the over 2 hours he’d be there, conditions could get drastically worse. Then I’d not only be concerned about him walking in those conditions, but being visible to snowplows or crazy drivers.
“I can’t believe folks in DC were stranded in cars from such little snow, wow.”
The pavement is still warm and the snow freezes as it falls. VA often has terribly icy conditions when it snows. We never have fluffy snow.
For some reason our part of Richmond got nothing last night. There were reports of 200 accident just west of us.
What’s the deal with NO milk left any where? Why would someone buy more milk than they normally need? I bought the last loaf of bread at the grocery store last night. There’s still rye bread though. And lactose free milk.
Taking my laptop home in case I need to telecommute tomorrow. S1 will be working the midnight shift at our local CBS affiliate and I told him to pack a change of clothes and plan on staying with us if it gets bad. He lives about a half hour away from work and we live 10 minutes away.
Metro should be running from GW (Foggy Bottom station) to Verizon Center (Chinatown) since it’s underground there.
Usually when the stores get crazy you can still find things, and less of a line, at a gas station convenience store. Or, you could get something like Parmalat. Good luck everyone!