Run For Your Lives!!!!!

The latest weather forecast for the Dee Cee area:

Thursday Mostly sunny in the morning...then mostly cloudy with a chance of rain...snow and sleet in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent. Thursday Night Mostly cloudy. A chance of freezing rain and snow in the evening. Snow accumulation up to an inch. Lows in the upper 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.

Here it is the middle of January and we haven't seen a flake yet (or even any ice). This means that all the craziness we generally let out over the winter months has been, instead, slowly bottling up in our collective psyche.

If the white stuff does appear tomorrow, expect the environs of the Beltway to go absolutely bananas. I'm talking "Alright everybody, get in crash positions," from Airplane! bananas.

UPDATE: Oh, what the heck. Why not -

Incidently, not too long ago I happened to watch a rarely aired John Wayne movie called The High and The Mighty, the story of a trans-Pacific flight that runs into trouble mid-ocean. Robert Stack plays the semi-psycho co-pilot. As I watched, I realized that in Airplane! he was basically riffing himself from this movie. (And indeed, as the sight-gags in Airplane! pale with age, I still derive infinite amounts of mirth watch Stack and Lloyd Bridges trying to top each other in gratuitous control tower macho.)