Buffalo, NY 2014 (Courtesy PBS)
Southeast Virginia’s TV meteorologists are in a full-blown tizzy because (gasp!) it looks like it’s going to snow. This is not necessarily bad, because TV meteorologists love to be in a tizzy over any weather event—but if you lived as boring a life as they do, wouldn’t you? The only other excoitement they get is standing outside in a storm on a live broadcast telling everyone else not to go outside.
Our neighboring states average the following annual snowfall:
West Virginia 62″
Delaware and Maryland 20.2″
North Carolina (due south of us) 7.6″
Virginia as a state averages 10.3″ per year, but the southeast (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Hampton, Chesapeake, etc.) averages a paltry 5.8 inches, although eighty years ago, in January 1936, there was a record snowfall of 20 inches. Wow!
So, wish your television weatherman a happy blizzard, but leave quickly or risk having it all explained in great detail to you.
sfnowak 
Check your weather records, I lived in Chesterfield county in the 80,s, Feb 14,1983 blizzard left 17″ of the white stuff on the ground.thats about 90 miles from you. May you find that gallon of milk and a loaf of bread if the shelves aren’t bare . Any weather event and that happened when i lived down there. Take care Steve, 73