Or not.
Depends. Depends which way
the wind is blowing.
Even so, the storm-to-be already has a nickname or nom de
guerre: Snowquester®, an echo of Snowmageddon.But why take a chance? Snuggle up beside the fireplace and read our classic posts on meteorological apocalypse, each in the context of movies:
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For another tale of
terror,
which might just be
hysteria,
or just might be
something
much worse …. ……
try this:
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~ This message
brought to you as a public service ~
~ by Campbell’s®
soups ~
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Something to watch till it lets up:
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My bride and I in our bathrobes,
coffee brewing
bubbling in the background;
the day has not yet dawned.
Already a cruel half-inch of snow
blankets the ground like Nazism.
“Look look O look” say I,
pointing to the back deck, eerily white.
“It is the Storm of the Century.
We shall not see its like until 2113.”
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Another tale of
quasi-climatic madness --
yet now, ’tis not the
man,
but the planet that
hath gone insane :
Murphy Makes a Mitzvah
(the tale of the
Magic Pawnshop)
Available for Nook or
for Kindle,
for less than the
price
of a side of fries
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“I’m in the mood for some soup.”
“So many varieties of Campbell’s® soup to choose from!”
“…and Campbell’s® Tomato Soup leads all the rest.”
“The perfect complement to Peanut Butter & Jelly,
America’s® national sandwich!”
“Closely followed by Campbell’s® Chicken Noodle©.”
“There is also Chicken & Rice ©.”
“Yes, but that is for people with Communist leanings.”
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~ BUY! ~
BUY NOW! BUY !!
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Mid-morning update:
Still no accumulation on the streets or even the sidewalks.
I stand outside
in the biting wind with my
snow-shovel,
catching the deadly flakes before they can hit the ground.
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The website of the Washington Post is gamely trying
to feed the frenzy by offering facilities through which readers can send in
“your photos, tweets, and reports of power outages”. Since DC itself has so far seen little beyond moderate
rain, this takes some doing.
So, the media needs to roam farther afield, to the rural areas where you
find accumulation -- but where, en
revanche, the locals tend to be pretty stoic about weather.
-- This just in! A reader from western Maryland reports a single
snowflake as big as a house.
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[Noon update]
The National Weather Service has downgraded Snowquester from “Storm of
the Century” to “Storm of the Decade”.
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