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[quote=Anonymous]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!). [/quote]

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