After some past blizzards, the number of claims for jobless benefits has dropped, with people temporarily unable to get to an unemployment office, and then increased in later weeks.
"They shouldn't get some kind of blizzard of confusion discount," he said.
For some, the imminent blizzard of damehoods, knighthoods and other honours for Britain's medal winners in Rio will serve as a sharp reminder that John Surtees – the only man in history to have won world championships on two and four wheels – continues, at 82, to be denied the title bestowed upon Sir Jackie Stewart and Sir Stirling Moss, not to mention Sir Philip Green.
In addition, the strong northerly winds will lead to some drifting, with blizzard conditions possible at times over high ground.
Despite the near blizzard, some businesses made valiant attempts to stay open to survive, businesses need profits, unlike their counterparts in government but the weather often made them too difficult for D.C. residents to reach.
I was 12 or 13, past snow fort age but not past the age where I might have half enthusiastically helped my little brother dig one out over a weekend, when I was walking to school in a blizzard, some of the harshest weather I can remember.
Researchers first began to gather evidence that big brains were advantageous after 19th century U.S. biologist Hermon Bumpus examined the brains of sparrows, some of whom had succumbed in a blizzard and some of whom survived.
In 1978 a mere 18 inches closed down schools and a 1983 blizzard prompted some frostbitten looting.
"We had a blizzard in some parts of the state, power out, people counting ballots by car headlights.
I'll admit that at some point during your blizzard of e-mails I began wondering what a walk-in bathtub is.
