Weekend Wrap-up

I had a pretty quiet weekend, during which I put in some overtime, had a parent dinner for my Dad's birthday, and finished the second season of Justified. Looking ahead, I'm excited about this potential snowfall we're expecting on Wednesday. However, I dislike this habit we've gotten into of naming our snowstorms before they even arrive, and picking crappy names at that.

I'm sure that it took all of two minutes to invent "Snowquester", but the official rules of the science of "mashing words together" require that the two words share a first syllable sound (snow + mobile = snobile). You can't just replace random syllables in the word, which is why the annual "Howl-O-Scream" event at Busch Gardens is not worth attending. Plus, "Snowquester" sounds like a failed Apogee game from the early 90s -- fifty years from now, when we're telling grandkids about the snowstorms of yore, we'll need temporal names like "Blizzard of '09".

How much snow do you think we'll get in Sterling? Vote in the Poll on the sidebar. Winners get an envelope of locally harvested snow hand-delivered to my trash can.

How much snow will Sterling get in the Blizzard of '13?

None (1 vote, 20.0%)


0.01" - 2" (1 vote, 20.0%)


2.01" - 48" (2 votes, 40.0%)


More than 48" (1 vote, 20.0%)


An earthquake (0 votes, 0.0%)