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If you don't have your milk, toilet paper and candles, Washington, you are so screwed. Why? 'Cause it's (probably) gonna snow. The local weather prediction deities at CapitalWeather are calling for a 70 percent chance of snow in the area Wednesday, with a 50-50 chance that we'll get more than an inch of snow. And as we all know, just like a child can drown in three inches of water, Washington can work itself into...

This storm is a result of an Alberta Clipper, an icy snowball of hate fueled both by the Great Lakes and Canada's disdain for our country's politics and our people's obliviousness to them unless there's a war on. The storms are usually fast moving, but this one appears to be eating up a good chunk of latitude, so expect the snow to last all day; we advise leaving the car at home and taking Metro.