It was delivered almost like a punch line. "I was buying bread and milk," Mary Orndorff said, brushing snow off her car, parked in front of a grocery store. Hm, maybe all those jokes about stampedes to the bread and milk aisles are true.
The east coast was belted with a snow storm that, we must grudgingly admit, was forecast by our favorite meteorologists. It hurts, since jokes about weather forecasters are about as common and biting as those about lawyers, used car sales people or journalists.
They predicted a bad storm nearly a week ago, and sure enough, about 6 p.m. Friday night, it started for real. The flakes seemed just a tad smaller than snowballs, and it didn't take long for snow to cover the roads.
It's especially tough to illustrate a snow storm for the next morning's paper when the snow doesn't start falling until just before deadline.
We remember getting a visitor in Ohio a few years back from someone in York (who will remain nameless) just so this person could see the pretty snow. Be carefull what you go looking for, it will "sneek" up on you. Be carefull!!