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[rivka]

Holy crap! They've been predicting a snowstorm for a few days now, but now the NWS prediction is for 10 to 20 inches of snow. In Maryland. Starting tonight.

The city is going to completely and utterly grind to a halt. Baltimore is not at all capable of dealing with a snowstorm like that.

I fear for my Christmas pageant! There's no way that the kids are going to make it to church Sunday morning.

Also, we have now slipped from "good luck trying to get anyone at work to get anything done early next week" to "there isn't a chance in hell that anyone at work is going to even be there to get anything done early next week."

At least I have finished my Christmas shopping and gotten packages into the mail, and we have food in the refrigerator. And Alex is going to be in seventh freaking heaven. The past two years have only ever seen a dusting of winter snow in Baltimore. Four years old and almost two feet of snow at Christmas!

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I grew up in upstate NY, so I know how to play in the snow. :-) And we actually have a yard (unusual in the city), so there's a place for snowman-building and everything.

I am trying to figure out if I can get Alex to St. Mary's Park, which is a giant open field several blocks away. We don't have a sled for me to drag her on, and it's probably asking too much to expect her to tramp through waist-deep snow for blocks and blocks. She doesn't own snowpants. But we'll have an awesome time in our yard and on our street.

NWS says that if the snow tops 14 inches it will make the top ten snowstorms ever to hit Baltimore. One of the others hit when we were living in the suburbs - we got something like 30 inches and were stuck for three or four days.