Winter Storm Jonas
Ever since Hurricane Katrina it seems meteorologists and city officials can be a little overprotective when it comes to dealing with potential natural disasters. However, I definitely prefer it to the alternative: not being prepared at all. Still, I approach most of their predictions with skepticism. We heard about this potential storm system moving across the southern states on Monday, and the speculations began. There was also a wave of low, cold air coming in off the east coast and the 2 were going to meet up to some potentially disastrous consequences. I held off preparing until Wednesday; once the Canadian, European & American agencies all forecast basically the same path and intensity of the storm... us... the DC area. We watched the projected path about eleventy billion times over the course of the week. It looked like a snowicane. The storm was twirling out into the ocean and slamming back into DC over and over again as the moist...