I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!

[Anonymous]

I stocked up in anticipation of not leaving the house between Friday-Tuesday. We live in a place that doesn’t even treat the roads, so yeah.

[Anonymous]

This morning Capital weather gang gave the following percentages:

1 inch: 85%
4 inches: 75%
6 inches: 65%
8 inches: 50%
12 inches: 35%

Looks like most likely scenario will be between 4-8 inches. Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. People really like to work themselves up.

[Anonymous]

I have four bags of marshmallows do you think that’s enough

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have four bags of marshmallows do you think that’s enough

How many boxes of Rice Krispies do you have?

[Anonymous]

Everybody check your iPhone; it will be 20 to twenty-five inches of snow!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband think he's driving to Raleigh on Monday with our teenager. So. Yeah. Right there with you.

Why not? Roads will be fine by Monday.

There's always a moron. Predictions are for 6-15 inches of snow in the DC area, and snow plus freezing rain and freezing sleet in VA on Sunday, particularly in the south, followed by a week where the max daily temps don't go above 20F. That ice is not going anywhere. Monday will be spent plowing the main roads, but every entrance and exit and all the secondary roads will be unplowed or very treacherous. Widespread power outages are expected if the freezing rain verifies.

Do not put lives at risk.

Yep. My street might see a plow Wednesday, but then again maybe not. Sometimes we don't get one ever. On Monday the neighbors and I might dig a car path out to the main road if being outside isn't too miserable.

[Anonymous]

Does Giant supermarket carry snow shovels?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Giant supermarket carry snow shovels?

Is this your first year living somewhere with snow?

I’ll never understand snow shovels selling out every year.

Do people not save their shovels from year to year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if we lose power or run out of food? I mean they won’t even be able to get to us to rescue us with blocked roads!

Are you joking? Buy water and more food.

This is why you need to have at least 3 days of supplies.

I assume you are joking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does Giant supermarket carry snow shovels?

Is this your first year living somewhere with snow?

I’ll never understand snow shovels selling out every year.

Do people not save their shovels from year to year?

Don't they go bad? I throw mine out every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am confused by the panic. We got around 10 inches in 2019, and this storm is projected to be around that or less. That's not that long ago. I don't even remember that storm being that big of a deal other than, I recall, it being a huge pain getting our alley clear of snow because it didn't get warm enough to melt it and we didn't have enough shovels or other gear to clear it ourselves (we tried), so we didn't have trash service for a week and some people couldn't get their cars out. Which sucked but is not something I'd say I'm "scared" about.

I was also here for the Snowzilla in 2016 and while that was a ton of snow for DC (like 18 inches) it was also not some dire event. I worked from home for a week, I remember going cross country skiing around our city neighborhood (a total blast), and we never lost power.

And then remember winter of 2009, I think, where we had Snowmageddon which I think was two separate storms a week or two apart that both dropped a ton of snow? It took weeks to dig out of that one and I know there were power outages in some places but also... it was fine. I was working for a law firm at the time that bragged about how people were in the office every single day of that storm (this sounds so stupid now in 2026 when remote work is so easy and there is zero reason to drag people into a white collar office during a snowstorm for "client service"). I think I missed one day of work because, while I lived walking distance away, the snow was coming down so hard that I walked about two blocks and then decided it was stupid and called in (had to use my own leave!).

You might recall that everyone died in Snowmageddon. We were replaced by DISA clones a few days later to keep the public from panicking. Of course, not everyone has figured out they are a clone, yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Giant supermarket carry snow shovels?

Yes they do. They're fairly cheap quality.

You might not have time before this storm but if you live here, buy a decently sturdy shovel with a metal edge, if not a metal scoop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does Giant supermarket carry snow shovels?

Is this your first year living somewhere with snow?

I’ll never understand snow shovels selling out every year.

Do people not save their shovels from year to year?

They throw them out!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This morning Capital weather gang gave the following percentages:

1 inch: 85%
4 inches: 75%
6 inches: 65%
8 inches: 50%
12 inches: 35%

Looks like most likely scenario will be between 4-8 inches. Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. People really like to work themselves up.

Thank you for your sanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many times in the past have you ran out of food

As someone who was very poor and often went to bed hungry ages 8-17, you seldom completely run out of food. You run out of things that a sane person would consider ingredients for a meal. So you eat ketchup soup or a mustard sandwich. I think the worst thing I ate growing up that still makes me nauseated was white rice flavored with a packet of fast food Italian salad dressing.

OP will survive 4-5 days snowed in living in DCUMland.

I can live off a box of saltines for 3-4 days.