# Damn, snow in the forecast for DC area! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 27, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424 "2000-12-27T20:49:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424/41 "2000-12-30T05:02:28Z")
Oopsie, I seem to have misinterpreted your post as hostile. Please forgive me; the scarves are blocking blood flow to my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Palm\_Cove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Palm\_Cove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palm_Cove)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424/42 "2000-12-30T05:34:55Z")
You lot complaining about the weather again? Why not move somewhere where it doesn’t snow? Easy really. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424/43 "2000-12-30T14:22:44Z")
**matt** , you might want to actually read people’s posts before jumping on their asses. **Falcon** and **OESGal** weren’t complaining about the weather in and of itself; they were complaining that it would keep the planes from flying - in Falcon’s case, stranding her with parents she can’t take another minute of, and in OESGal’s case, her BF is flying from CA to TN, and she’s flying to meet him there. I’ll bet snowstorms keep the planes grounded in Winnipeg too, on occasion. Geez. At any rate, it looks like we have a happy ending for Falc and OESGal: it’s a bright, clear, snow-free day in the greater DC area. The storm’s track stayed to the east of the Chesapeake Bay, Falc’s parents can get back to Memphis, and all is well with the world. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424/44 "2000-12-30T14:35:53Z")
Nope, RT. The _&^E#$(_&# BASTARDS at Northwest cancelled ALL flights from National to Memphis. My parents leave tomorrow at 6 in the morning. I hate weathercasters, I hate snow, I hate Northwest. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424/45 "2000-12-30T15:00:19Z")
WTF? Falc, I’m sorry, hon. I got up and looked out the window-nothing. I swear my first thought was “Oh, good, Falc’s parent’s will be able to go home”. And now you’re saying the airport was closed?? Why? Did they actually get at lot of snow at National? Cuz we got nothing here…and I mean not a flake…Which…FTR, sucks. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424/46 "2000-12-30T16:37:09Z")
Where the fuck is the snow?!?!?!?! :mad: We might get _flurries_ now? Bah! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424/47 "2000-12-30T16:44:01Z")
I remember one time we telephoned my grandmamma in California, who complained to us, “It was so cold last night, the birdbath froze over!” Of course, we were in Winnipeg at the time, in a blizzard. In April. So we weren’t as sympathetic as we might have been. By the way, have you ever noticed how some weather maps give Canadian temperatures in Celsius and American temperatures in Fahrenheit, without mentioning this fact? I can just imagine some guys going, “Whoah, Detroit 32, Windsor 0… guess that’s how they figger’d out where to put the border, huh?” ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424/48 "2000-12-30T18:26:44Z")
Well, OESGAL, you gots what you wanted. No snow. I personally was not hoping for snow inasmuch as much snow would mean I can’t drive to Falc’s place tomorrow. So yay for no snow! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424/49 "2000-12-30T21:16:29Z")
Grumble. That’s it… I’m forced to pout now. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _pout_ ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424/50 "2000-12-31T00:40:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > **That’s it… I’m forced to pout now.** Yeah, me too. If I’m going to be stuck home being sick on a long holiday weekend, surrounded by drugs and food and tissues, I better be snowed-in so I at least have something pretty to look at outside the window. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-snow-in-the-forecast-for-dc-area/47424.md?page=2)