I have such an urge to abandon my car in the travel lane and stock up on all the bread, toilet paper, and milk I can carry...
Are you kidding!? People here FREAK about the FORECAST of snow. Not even the real stuff. (I'm in NOVA too)
My favorite example was my first winter here.
Now, I grew up in central Illinois. We knew it had to snow and snow HARD about 6 hours before school to get out of school that day. Otherwise the roads were cleared for the busses.
I went to college in Southern Michigan. We closed school ONE DAY (the four years I was there) because of an ice storm that knocked out power.
I wake up one morning to the radio broadcasting all the school closings in the area.
Excited (as I love snow) I get ready for an enjoyable day of the crunch beneath my feet, the large flakes floating down and other fun in the snow.
I walk outside. TO BRIGHT SUNSHINE. Not a cloud in the sky. Not a flake on the ground. Snow was forecasted for LATER IN THE DAY and the school districts all cancelled.
Now, I stay in every time it snows. This is because
I know how to drive in snow. No one else seems to.
I just avoid them.