Adventures in Craigslist is a whenever-we-find-something-interesting series in which we dive headfirst into the vast complexities of the Washington region’s Craigslist. Today: the people you encounter during a thundersnowtrafficpocalypse.

Although an overwhelming majority of the complaints about today’s snowfall have revolved around thoroughly brutal traffic and snow plows — or the lack thereof — that might just be because the people who would be angry about their power situation are unable to electronically register their frustration. According to reports, approximately 150,000 people in the Washington, D.C. region were without power around 8 p.m. tonight — that includes more than 93,000 outages in Pepco’s service area. As you can see from the map above, the outages appear hitting upper Northwest D.C. and a large portion of Montgomery County the hardest (red on the map means more than 5,000 outages reported), but a whole lot of the Pepco customer base is struggling.

If you are driving somewhere around the Washington region this evening, well, godspeed.

With heavy snowflakes beginning to fall inside the District, we thought it would make for an interesting perspective to see what could be the biggest storm of the winter so far looks like space. The image above shows us the current storm that’s about to wallop the District, taken by a NASA satellite and posted by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Look at that swirl go! (Image courtesy NOAA/NASA GOES Project.)

Based on the reports we’ve seen and what’s going on outside the windows at DCist HQ, the THUNDERSNOW or THUNDERSLEET or THUNDERHAIL or whatever you want to call it has begun to make its way into town. How convenient, as most places around town either sent people home at 3 like the feds did, shuttered early like some of the city’s universities, or will close their doors shortly, like the District’s libraries. Metro told Examiner…

The National Weather Service has announced that the Washington region will be under a Winter Storm Watch beginning tomorrow afternoon. And why is that, Capital Weather Gang? “Due to the energy associated with this storm, it’s possible localized heavy banding of snow may develop tomorrow late afternoon and evening,” reports Jason Samenow. “It’s very difficult to pinpoint where this would happen – but where it does snowfall rates could be very heavy with the possibility of thundersnow.”

Illustration by Martin Austermuhle Oh, poor Davy DCist. All he wanted was to join the rest of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in their breathless frenzy for basic sundries. Alas, not much unlike you, I, and everyone else we know, Davy was no match for the bloodthirsty, ravenous THUNDERSNOW. I mean, look at that thing. Go outside? I don’t think so, buddy. I’ll stick in here with my coffee, thank you very much. As…

That Winter Storm Warning from the National Weather Service is only getting more and more real as the day goes on. They are now predicting, without even a hint of humor, that between 10 and 20 inches of snow could accumulate between midnight tonight and 6 a.m. on Sunday. That’s well over a foot of snow, for folks keeping track at home. Just how flinty do you think we have to be to take…