Photo by jim_malone Mother Nature thinks we are bad people. That’s the only justification we can think of for the latest from the National Weather Service: a Winter Storm Watch is in effect starting Tuesday afternoon through to Wednesday afternoon. So far, this newest storm is only threatening to drop about five inches of snow on us, though as we’ve all learned by now, these predictions are subject to change. It’s amusing to think…

Last night’s collective raid on area grocery and hardware stores left shelves bare and patience worn thin. We’ve heard about hellishly long check-out lines, like at the Foggy Bottom Trader Joe’s, where the line actually looped twice through the entire store and out the door. We’ve heard about people losing their sense of perspective. We’ve heard about gridlocked parking lots. But it doesn’t really sink in just how bad of a pre-storm freak out Washingtonians…