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We think back on it and realize how bad it could have been. She got tagged three or four times by bald-faced hornets two summers ago and ended up going to the ER - first time she'd had an obvious allergic reaction since that scare all those years ago. Damn sure she carries around an EpiPen now. I'm like you - I can take hits from all kinds of stinging insects and not react at all )other than pain and some swelling), but let me touch poison ivy/oak/sumac and I'm fugged.

Getting my first today

My wife and met each other while she was living down south, so we started our lives together via long-distance relationship. One late night, a couple months after we met, she called me to tell me that she was headed home after an evening out with friends. She also told me that she had gotten bitten on her foot by what she assumed was fire ants. I asked how she was, and she said that her foot had swelled up and that her face was starting to itch. She then mentioned that she was driving by a hospital and wondered whether she should check herself in (and then laughed about it). I told her emphatically YES, so she did. 5-10 minutes after she checked in, they took her into a room where she passed the F out. A shot of Benadryl brought her right back, but if she hadn't pulled into the hospital right then...

I can somewhat forgive the relative newbies (and they can be "taught"), but the folks who have been here for years have no excuse.

Your stepmom sounds like quite the geek!

I just want to reiterate that I wish people would just stop f'ing mentioning and/or responding to anyone who posts only to get attention. If anything is ruining being on the boards, it's seeing any mention of those types of posters.

I haven’t seen all that much snow falling.

It is, but we definitely lost the column earlier than the last couple runs.

And finishes with a little kiss of snow on Friday evening. Lost a little QPF in a stripe from SQ VA trough DC and Baltimore, but that's just run-to-run variance, from what I can tell.

All fours cells (two basil, one parsley, one cilantro) have germinated and are growing nicely by now. Parsley is about 3" tall with the first true leaves showing, cilantro sprouted later and is still just cotyledons, while the basil also has true leaves and are about 1.5" tall. Split nine jalapeno seeds across two cells on Sunday, and will be sowing all five of my tomato varieties this weekend.

Consider yourself lucky to have BTRWX in your corner.

NAM has this thing in and out of the 95 corridor in like 8 hours. Quick, but intense.

All we need is Ellinwood's first map to sufficiently deflate everyone except our friends from the sticks.

I realize this is a little late, but I thought this was a pretty impressive (and potentially quite significant) run-over-run change. Would LOVE to see this continue at 18z. Liking what seems to be a little better confluence on the NAM early on.

This is where we somehow need the seasonal trends to bring these things southeast, but the fine print in the weenie handbook says that trends only work when they aren’t in your favor.

For the love of all that is holy, please put a cover on your grill!

Yup. I’d say 50/50 sleet and pixie flakes now.

Small snow grains mixed in with sleet in Burke at 29°. Pretty decent crust on the ground (like a boulé crust, more so than a Wonder bread crust) and casing of ice on elevated surfaces and cars. Streets are slushy.

Really sleeting hard. Impressed at the poor conditions of secondary roads. This is Guinea Road on the way to Target:

Almost all sleet in Burke. Rather this than freezing rain if we can get enough to whiten the ground.

This is what’s really annoying me about this one. Max on precip with cold temps, but we rain/sleet.

I’m going to HHI the first week of March, so I know in my heart of hearts that we’re going to get a phased bomb right around that timeframe. I just hope it rains on all of you when it happens.

28 in Burke with drizzle and a bit of sleet. Almost fell on my arse when stepping onto the deck.

PeRlEr VeRTiX!!1!