A low pressure system moving up the Atlantic coast creates perfect conditions for a huge dump. We are expecting up to two feet of snow in the Washington, D.C., area between now and tomorrow morning. In other words, plan to be indoors. We will be working on leftovers. Can you say, “turkey soup?”
We had our first snow this week here in the District of Columbia, a couple of inches of heavy wet stuff. A quick inventory of the garden shows that while some of our greens got knocked back a bit, most of our cruciferous vegetables were hardly fazed. Yesterday, in fact, with the temperature hovering around […]
Leigh Hauter said he never saw it coming. “I didn’t realize it was getting that cold,” he said of the afternoon the Big Freeze descended. “We went for a walk and the water in the boiler was already frozen.” The wood-fired boiler in question is the one that heats farmer Hauter’s greenhouse and his thousands […]
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