Biggest DC Bust

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[Ji]

March 2001 by a mile

[jnis]

March 2001 by a mile

Agree....Epic let down

[yoda]

The Storm That Must Not Be Named... I didn't have a good time going to school since I was considered as the weather guy from most of the classes I was in and I was telling people we had at least a foot in the bag and not to bother with hwk... oops

[MacChump]

[WEATHER53]

I still have a small bruise from 3/01

[HighStakes]

3/01 is the biggest and worst bust bar none. Another bad bust not included in this list is 12/30/2000.

[Ian]

I went with Boxing Day since I still got snow from Mar 2001 in CT

[stormtracker]

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for some reason I lol'd hard.

 

March 2001 w/o a doubt.

[stormtracker]

Boxing day is a close second

[Ian]

You guys really thought you were getting a DC HECS in March?

[MacChump]

for some reason I lol'd hard.

March 2001 w/o a doubt.

took a while to find just the right expression

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

I've heard and read a fair amount about March 2001, but was not here for that.

 

For the events I've lived in the area, I'd have to list the Boxing Day event, 12-26-2010 first, and the Noquester 3-6-2013 as second I think.  The January 2005 event would have to be up there, too, as I recall we were supposed to get 6-10", ended up with maybe 3-4 and some sleet before getting dry slotted.

 

(EDIT:  I had to LOL at the list of events which include some that are yet in the future!!)

[stormtracker]

You guys really thought you were getting a DC HECS in March?

 

It was the most excited I had ever been for a storm.  Kocin was on TWC... 15 to 25"....it was a balmy 60 something and I was in Giant and they were announcing to stock up for the blizzard!   I made a video that day....looked into the camera...then panned around outside and said look...this will all be different tomorrow!

 

Yeah.

 

It's the only storm where I honestly became distraught and depressed about.    I'll never do that **** again.  

[mattie g]

I was in grad school here in March '01, but I honestly don't remember the bust.

[Ian]

It was the most excited I had ever been for a storm.  Kocin was on TWC... 15 to 25"....it was a balmy 60 something and I was in Giant and they were announcing to stock up for the blizzard!   I made a video that day....looked into the camera...then panned around outside and said look...this will all be different tomorrow!

 

Yeah.

 

It's the only storm where I honestly became distraught and depressed about.    I'll never do that **** again.  

 

I do remember this area was supposed to get crushed but don't remember the details.  In CT they closed the whole state the day it was supposed to begin and nothing really happened but it did come eventually just not super crazy.

[Ji]

It was the most excited I had ever been for a storm. Kocin was on TWC... 15 to 25"....it was a balmy 60 something and I was in Giant and they were announcing to stock up for the blizzard! I made a video that day....looked into the camera...then panned around outside and said look...this will all be different tomorrow!

Yeah.

It's the only storm where I honestly became distraught and depressed about. I'll never do that **** again.

I was depressed for 3 weeks. Then got laid off a month later...then broke up with girl

[HighStakes]

It was the most excited I had ever been for a storm.  Kocin was on TWC... 15 to 25"....it was a balmy 60 something and I was in Giant and they were announcing to stock up for the blizzard!   I made a video that day....looked into the camera...then panned around outside and said look...this will all be different tomorrow!

 

Yeah.

 

It's the only storm where I honestly became distraught and depressed about.    I'll never do that **** again.  

I called out of work sick on Monday and Tuesday.

[Ji]

I called out of work sick on Monday and Tuesday.

Rented 4 movies. Watched none

[hosj III]

Can we have a thread of biggest snow booms? This whole thread is too depressing.

[hosj III]

And why was 12-26-10 worse than 3-6-13? As I recall things were going downhill before Boxing Day even started. With noquester, we thought we had it in the bag the night before as all the short-range models were going insane.

[stormtracker]

I was depressed for 3 weeks. Then got laid off a month later...then broke up with girl

We were young and dumb then.  I was a 26 yo weenie who would rather sit in front of my powerful 1.5 Mbps cable internet all day watching the ETA and MRF than social or be uh..intimate.    smh  

[snowfan]

HPC disco for 3/01:

http://www.northshorewx.com/HPC20010302.asp

[snowfan]

LOL

http://www.northshorewx.com/ClimateData/images/snowcover-northeast-20010307-n16rgb.jpg

[snowfan]

Gonna keep the pain coming....

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/phi/030501storm/030501snowmap.jpg

[Ji]

HPC disco for 3/01:

http://www.northshorewx.com/HPC20010302.asp

Hard to read but warning signs when they used 78 analog

[snowfan]

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/knwNbkuNXCg/hqdefault.jpg

[Fozz]

Boxing day 2010 was the most painful for me personally.... I spent hours and hours each day tracking that storm, getting lured in by every silly run giving me a foot or more even up to Christmas morning, along with a WSW for 6-10". I should've known better and realized that we were on the fringe of seeing next to nothing, but I was way too invested and was in denial, hugging every run that gave me 6"+. Needless to say, I saw nothing more than hours of light flurries and a dusting, and had the worst meltdown in my history of posting on the boards. The 20 year old Fozz was f*cking annoying, but seeing the Carolinas, SE VA, Delmarva, as well as the 40N crowd all get blasted with a MECS while our region got screwed over was uniquely hideous.

 

3/6/13 sucked, but at least I saw a period of SN+ and a few inches, which was nowhere near the 8-12" I hoped for but better than nothing.

 

thank God I wasn't into weather in 2001 or else I would've cried

[hosj III]

I still think 3-6-13 beats out march 2001 as worst bust ever. I was amazed on march 6 2013 how no one called bust until the event was half over.

[HighStakes]

I still think 3-6-13 beats out march 2001 as worst bust ever. I was amazed on march 6 2013 how no one called bust until the event was half over.

Missing out on 8 inches of snow is very disappointing and painful for a snow lover.  Missing out on 24-36 inches of snow is demoralizing and the lowest point a snow lover will ever reach. No disrespect, but the two are not even in the same discussion.