[Utah Girl]

Good advice on all the websites. I highly recommend providentliving.org. There is a lot of very useful information on food storage and preparedness there. And as much as I hate to say it, the Red Cross site is also very useful.

[newgeezer]

So how prepared are you

Psalm 23
¹   The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
²   He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
³   He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
⁴   Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
⁵   Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
⁶   Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

In short, "Bring it on."

[Last Visible Dog]

Bear in mind that Washington rarely receives much snow, and a quarter-inch is often enough to cancel schools here.

That is NOT true. Washington DC (the city) gets an average of 16" of snow a year while the Northern and Western suburbs get from 24" to 30"

They were forecasting the “twin storms” for most of the previous week and I stocked up on Friday – by the Saturday storm I thought I overreacted but by Sunday/Monday I realized I had not.

I have lived, so far, all of my life in the mid-Maryland area and I can't remember schools being closed for a quarter-inch of snow (mainly because the smallest measurement of snow they use is one full inch). The Washington DC area are not light-weights when it comes to snow - I think you are thinking of Richmond VA and south

[Alberta's Child]

I think people should go live in the mountains in Canada or Alaska for a winter. When you get through the snowstorms, the -40 cold, the days with five hours of daylight, the gravel roads that aren't plowed anyway, and then the spring flooding that occurs when all that snow and ice melts, you'll come back to Washington, D.C. and look upon a two-foot February snowstorm as a mild spring day.