The weather weathered pretty hard this weekend.

A storm expected to hit the area this evening is expected to be strong, bringing with it everything from hail to possible tornadoes.

Photo by ElvertBarnes. Good morning Washington, and happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers out there. Readers, please go call your mom today. She’ll appreciate it. >> A group house in Georgetown was brazenly robbed early Saturday morning. Robbers, one with a gun, tied up and beat two people in the house at about 3:15 a.m. The house, in which Georgetown students and non-students live, is on the 3500 block of S Street…

We’d never recommend driving through the kind of weather that rolled through the region last night, but I suppose if you are going to do so, Iron Maiden is a more than appropriate soundtrack. [There’s some NSFW language in the video, though I suspect anyone pressing play on footage of someone driving through a twister probably already arrived at that assumption.]

UPDATE: After some confusion about the deal among Ben’s staff, it appears as if they are indeed giving out totally free half-smokes to those who donate blood today.