Snowmageddon

So yesterday's thundersnow was probably the weirdest weather I've ever seen. Heavy rain, heavy sleet, heavy snow. From about 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., we got about 8 inches of snow at work in the Tysons Corner area (only 3 or 4 at home).

Thank God I went to work early.

If you've never been to Tysons Corner, it's a cluster of a burgeoning metropolis off the Beltway in Northern Virgina, about 10 miles from D.C. Metro is going in, the HOT Lanes project -- you name it, there's some kind of construction going on there.

So when yesterday's storm hit, at rush hour, it was a perfect storm of events that led to people abandoning their cars in the middle of the road and the beltway. It took a co-worker 7 1/2 hours to get from his home in Baltimore to work. He left home at 3:30 p.m. He arrived at 11.

Even President Obama's motorcade got stuck trying to get from Andrews Air Force Base to the White House. But why they decided to drive through the middle of D.C. during a snowstorm at rush hour is beyond me.

I've lived here 19 years, and I've never seen a place where people panic at the slightest bit of precipitation.

There was really no reason for yesterday's clusterf*ck. Everybody had ample warning this storm was coming. And for once, the forecasters got this one right.

So seriously people -- get a grip.