[SkateDC] Snow May Be a DC Record, Surpassing Knickerbocker Storm of 1922 [Off Topic]

[Carl Ford]

   I just saw on Channel 4 tonight that Loudoun County and parts west  
could get 30 to 40 inches.  That is not a typo. Quoting George  
Marinkovich <skatewash at yahoo.com>:

> Issued by The National Weather Service [big fans of the CAPS LOCK   
> key, it seems]
> Baltimore/Washington, MD
>
>      9:30 pm EST, Fri., Feb. 5, 2010
>
>
>            ... RECORD SNOWFALL FORECAST IN THE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON  
> DC REGION...
> LOOKING BACK AT THE BIGGEST STORM OF RECORD FOR WASHINGTON DC... THE
> JANUARY 1922 KNICKERBOCKER STORM... 28.0 INCHES OF SNOW WAS PRODUCED
> FROM 3.02 INCHES OF LIQUID WATER. CURRENT FORECASTS FOR THIS EVENT HAVE
> TOTAL LIQUID FALLING FROM THIS STORM APPROACHING 3 INCHES... WHICH
> ACCORDINGLY WOULD CREATE A SNOWFALL THAT WILL RIVAL THE KNICKERBOCKER
> STORM TOTAL. GENERALLY ACROSS THE REGION... 20 TO 30 INCHES OF SNOW
> WILL FALL BY SATURDAY EVENING.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_Storm
>
> Hey if it's gonna snow, may as well go for the record, right?
>
> Cheers,
> George
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Carl Ford
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Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane  
people who
are willing to admit that they are crazy. -Nora Ephron, novelist (b. 1941)