***Man, where did all that snow in DC come from?***
Yup, that snow sure surprised me, too. We lived a half hour from D.C. for a year, and the only snow we had was one 4" fall of light, fluffy stuff that you could drive through with no trouble. (Of course the natives abandoned their cars on the roads and refused to leave their houses. Sorry, D.C. people, but to a northerner it was too funny. Loved your weather, though and wish we had some of it right now.)
I am very disappointed that the Inaugural Gala, with both the Bush and Cheney families in attendance, has not been on any channel that I can find. I did catch a glimpse of the Gatlin Brothers and Reuben Stoddard on MSNBC, but that's it. Unless it just started, nothing on CSPAN either (last time I checked CPAN1 had Tony Blair and CPAN2 had the Mayor of Carmel, Indiana.
You lived there in an unusual year. DC is just far enough south that the temps get above freezing during the day, so most years there is an ice coating on top of whatever.
Most years, we spend months driving on ice coated snow, or black ice, or the like. A climate cold enough to keep snow instead of turning the top layer into ice is much easier to deal with.
We were "supposed" to get a dusting, maybe an inch. I got a measureable THREE inches. I'm worried about the "dusting" we are supposed to get on Thursday. And on Saturday night into Sunday, we are supposed to get inches, that I suppose will be measureable in feet. We put a man on the moon, can't we predict weather better than this?
Rats! I wanted to be living in FL before I ever had to shovel anything white, ever again, and I'll have to go out and shovel tomorrow - unless one of my neighbors has seen me on crutches and comes over with their snow blower and does my driveway for me. Wishful thinking......