Ever since the mini six-hour blizzard that Washington DC suffered in 2011....everyone is hyper in the region about the prediction for snow. Our little miniature blizzard from last year was an awkward episode. It was never supposed to reach DC, but it did. The temperature really wasn't much below 31 degrees, but the snow came down in such abundance and turned into a huge amount of slush. So when the government did agree to send folks home by 2PM, it was already too late. Some folks didn't get home until 10PM that night. Sadly, there probably wasn't more than three or four inches that fell, and in Alaska.....folks would just laugh over a situation like that.
So today, the weather folks came up with this awkward snow prediction, that sounded fairly similar to the 2011 episode. By 10AM, they had decided to let folks do liberal leave or work from home. So around lunch, a huge herd of folks just packed and left their government offices in DC.
I didn't even find out about the liberal leave policy until almost 1:30 in the afternoon. I checked the weather temperature, and we were still around 37 degrees. Nothing made sense about this at all.
When I finally left around 4PM....I came to find a steady drizzle, and the temperature was still around 37 degrees. Still no snow. The weather guys were talking about real snow to the southern valley region of Virginia and up into Maryland.....but the entire mess had missed us. The eighth of February will be forever noted for the mini-blizzard that never was, and not much else.
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