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Congrats Tjol.

Stone, I didn't know you were a pharmacist. That's at least two we've got here now.

--A

[Cagliostro]

Should we also count the number of "phamaceutical distributors" around here as well?

[aliantha]

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Congrats, Tjol!

Here in the mid-Atlantic, we're bracing for Snowpocalypse II. Snow is supposed to start falling mid-morning tomorrow and get worse from there. They're now saying we could get 20 inches before the storm is over Saturday night. That's two big storms this winter, assuming the thing tomorrow pans out. We *never* get this kind of snow here... Had to rebook my attorney's flight home from the UK; his original flight that was scheduled to arrive mid-afternoon has been cancelled....

[stonemaybe]

Av wrote:

Stone, I didn't know you were a pharmacist. That's at least two we've got here now.

Yeah I know. dlbpharm and I sussed eachother out years ago! he's hospital based though, knows the ins and outs of prescription drugs better than I do, ie for more serious hospital-based conditions.

I work in the community so my forte is the over the counter stuff and run of the mill prescription drugs that the walking unhealthy get.

What's your line, Cag?

[Menolly]

Av wrote:

Stone, I didn't know you were a pharmacist. That's at least two we've got here now.

Yeah I know. dlbpharm and I sussed eachother out years ago! he's hospital based though, knows the ins and outs of prescription drugs better than I do, ie for more serious hospital-based conditions.

I work in the community so my forte is the over the counter stuff and run of the mill prescription drugs that the walking unhealthy get.

When Beorn had that rash of unknown origin, dlb and Stone were both helpful in advising me. More so even than Beorn's doctor. I only wish I could have tracked down that witch hazel gel Stone recommended. None of the pharmacists locally had any idea what I was looking for!

[lorin]

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Congrats, Tjol!

Here in the mid-Atlantic, we're bracing for Snowpocalypse II. Snow is supposed to start falling mid-morning tomorrow and get worse from there. They're now saying we could get 20 inches before the storm is over Saturday night. That's two big storms this winter, assuming the thing tomorrow pans out. We *never* get this kind of snow here...

Snowpocalyse II............I like that! Us too. I think it's coming from your direction. I am tired of cleaning up after you guys!

[Menolly]

...meanwhile here I sit in 71°F/22°C temperatures...

[lorin]

...meanwhile here I sit in 71°F/22°C temperatures...

Ha! But when you are dripping at 102 and 99% humidity I will be in a balmy 75 degrees. Life has a way of evening out, don't you think?

[Menolly]

...meanwhile here I sit in 71°F/22°C temperatures...

Ha! But when you are dripping at 102 and 99% humidity I will be in a balmy 75 degrees. Life has a way of evening out, don't you think?

True 'nuff.
Fortunately we never get that hot here in Gator Town.
But the 99% humidity during the other nine months of the year besides December through February? No way I can deny that.
*pout*

[aliantha]

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Congrats, Tjol!

Here in the mid-Atlantic, we're bracing for Snowpocalypse II. Snow is supposed to start falling mid-morning tomorrow and get worse from there. They're now saying we could get 20 inches before the storm is over Saturday night. That's two big storms this winter, assuming the thing tomorrow pans out. We *never* get this kind of snow here...

Snowpocalyse II............I like that! Us too. I think it's coming from your direction. I am tired of cleaning up after you guys!

Yeah, well, this winter I am pretty darned sick and tired of sending it your way. The forecast I saw a few minutes ago was for 16 to 26 inches by Saturday night. That's just un-freaking-believable.

[StevieG]

Snowpocalypse Now?

[aliantha]

Good one, Stevie! The "II" is based on the fact that we had nearly 20 inches of snow in a storm in December. We really are not equipped to deal with this kind of snow; some years we don't get any at all. And DC residents in general react to two flakes of snow by mobbing the grocery stores and stocking up on bread, milk and toilet paper. (As one Metro driver said over the intercom one night: "The bread and the milk, I understand. But toilet paper??" )

OTOH, the last time we had a winter in which the snow gods hammered us, by the end of it people here were behaving like good Midwesterners -- i.e., life didn't grind to a halt when snow fell, and almost everybody learned to drive on the stuff so it pretty much stopped freaking them out.

Anyway, I've now driven in three snowstorms this winter -- one here in December, one here last weekend, and one in Colorado in December. I'm done, y'all. I am taking a vacation day tomorrow, and as soon as the first flakes hit the ground, I am hunkering down here at home!

[matrixman]

Snowpocalypse Now?

Just picture ali looking out her window and saying: "...the horror...the horror..."

(As the Doors' "The End" plays in background.)

[aliantha]

I'm just hoping my boss is able to get home from London tomorrow afternoon. He's already had one flight cancelled out from under him. Part of Ali's Workday Fun today was finding another flight home that wasn't totally sold out. Bleah.

[lucimay]

Snowpocalypse Now?

Just picture ali looking out her window and saying: "...the horror...the horror..."

(As the Doors' "The End" plays in background.)

good one sg and mm. i'm still chuckling.

[Cameraman Jenn]

Hope the snow doesn't hit too hard Ali. Sea, hope the pox is getting better, everyone who needs hugs, I'm sending them now and anyone who doesn't is getting one anyway.

[aliantha]

Have a great day off, Jenn!

The National Weather Service is now calling for accumulations of 20 to 28 inches. I've *never* seen over two feet of snow from a single storm, and I grew up in northern Indiana. Glad I'm on the third floor -- it's gonna be like a Hagar the Horrible cartoon for homeowneres around here, with the chimneys sticking up from a snowbank!

[danlo]

Good luck with this snow storm everyone! I'm worried about my Dad in New York and that his caretakers might not be able to get through-he's tough though. I can't find the bleepity-bleep phone book anywhere!

We had a quarter inch yesterday and it was gone by noon...

[Orlion]

Here in Ohio, it rained all morning, and then snow was falling everywhere when I had to walk to class... now that I'm there, the snow has stopped.... lousy, unpredictable, Ohio weather! None of the snow has stuck thus far, but it's suppose to get worse... whatever

[matrixman]

A snowstorm dubbed "Snowmageddon" - not just major, but historically major - was heading to the U.S. capital on Friday, threatening to dump as much as 65 centimetres on a region that rarely gets more than a few dustings a year.

Not a flake had fallen from the sky, however, when schools in the city and its surrounding suburbs announced they were closing early, the mayor of D.C. declared a snow emergency, airlines cancelled flights, airports prepared to shut down and citizens raced to grocery and hardware stores to stock up on supplies.

The storm was said to be in contention to break the record posted by a 1922 blizzard that blew in off the Atlantic.

But a traditional D.C. winter doesn't normally result in anything more than a couple of snowfalls a year, amounting to rarely more than a sprinkling by Canadian standards. Consequently, the city and its suburbs in Virginia and Maryland don't allocate large portions of funds to snow removal, which means a major snowstorm is crippling.

©The Canadian Press, 2010

For those of us used to big snowstorms, I guess it would be easy to say people in D.C. are overreacting.
Instead, I commend the city for taking this seriously and declaring it an emergency. Better safe than sorry.