Gawker shared photos of pillaged Safeway and Wegmans stores in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Maybe it’s my roots in upstate New York’s snow belt, but I have to ask: D.C., you do remember that snow melts, right?

See, this is the effect of mass weather-induced panic and, apparently, an area almost wholly dependent on takeout food.

Snowpocalypse ’10: Everybody Panic! [Gawker]

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