Today’s AG Lite is by me. The snow has returned and it has cancelled everything. I mean everything. This time around we’re getting hit with snow and very strong wind. So if you’re in the neighborhood, stay safe.

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Comment by Seth
2010-02-10 00:23:59

Greeeaaat… and unlike last time, It’ll totally come visit us in northern CT. D:

 
Comment by Jim
2010-02-10 00:27:26

I feel your pain. I STILL haven’t dug my car completely out.

 
Comment by RevPeters
2010-02-10 00:39:49

i’m hoping for another snowball fight in dupont. i keep missing them for some reason…

 
Comment by QuasiMondo
2010-02-10 01:19:04

I just looked outside and it’s not snowing…

WTH?

 
Comment by Raposa
2010-02-10 01:31:36

haha, I like the batshovel. we managed to dodge most of the snow here in kansas city.

 
Comment by Jubal
2010-02-10 02:15:33

The way the snow fell reminded me of the comic Bone.
A pleasant piece of nostalgia.

 
Comment by Nick
2010-02-10 02:41:29

I’m torn between loving and being really jealous of the batman snowshovel, and recognizing that it would be really ineffective against Canadian snowfalls…

 
Comment by Kais86
2010-02-10 05:02:13

Guh, on offense, but I’m glad that’s not happening here, I live in Oklahoma we can barely handle the very thought of snow let alone it’s actualization. Strongest winds on earth? No problem. Crystallized water hits the ground and everyone freaks.

Comment by weatherguy
2010-02-14 15:59:34

Hah! So true!

Of course, we DO get mostly ice in these parts – we just had our second 1-1.5″ glaze ice storm in two years over here.

You know, when that near-foot of snow fell a couple weeks ago, I thought “Oh, lovely, what a pain”. Then Washington got three feet. And then I thought, “Well, a foot isn’t that bad!” :D

Also, Hawk, where does one get a batman shovel? Too awesome!

 
 
Comment by Indeskize
2010-02-10 05:34:14

i want that batman shovel. i dont care that i wouldn’t work

 
Comment by Formori
2010-02-10 06:51:21

Welcome to every winter we’ve ever had, lol. Last weekend we got 60+ cm of snow and now we’re expecting to get the last part of the storm hitting you now, tomorrow, lovely.

Btw, I’m from newfoundland, canada, so I always get the ends of all storms going up the east coast, could I borrow the batman shovel to ward them off?

 
Comment by Treyos
2010-02-10 07:33:22

Batshovel is epic. It should include a mini-flamethrower gadget. ;)

 
Comment by Sam
2010-02-10 07:57:58

I never get why people are always surprised when it snows, it comes every year. But I guess for you boys in parts of the states this is a rare occurrence. Here in Canada (well in my part of Canada) we have had a mild winter. In the last few weeks we finally got a decent snow storm. Went snow shoeing for the first time too.

P.S.
Love the Batshovel and Cape in A.G. Light.

 
Comment by Neko
2010-02-10 08:54:53

I love the snow, but this is ridiculous. We’ve never had this much snow in my life! Let alone 3 larger snow storms in one season…>.<

 
Comment by Joe
2010-02-10 09:08:27

It turned into rain about halfway through, around here. The only thing we really have to shovel is what the snow plows pushed up into the driveway.

Comment by Joe
2010-02-10 20:41:49

(No, wait, scratch that.
It doesn’t know what it’s doing anymore.)

 
 
Comment by BethR
2010-02-10 09:09:01

The problem with DC is that it’s right on the edge of the sun belt and the snow belt – this is a REALLY weird winter. I did like what the WashPost was calling this one yesterday: Snoverkill.

 
Comment by ZachY
2010-02-10 11:16:26

I blame El Nino! (seriously)

I’m a meteorologist (in training), and conditions this winter are very typical of a strong El Nino, which causes the subtropical jet stream to go on some major steroids. That’s why we’ve had so many storms across the southern half of the US. At least you East Coasters don’t have to evacuate or anything; People out in California have been getting tons of rain, and have to dodge house-flattening mudslides…

 
Comment by Si
2010-02-10 13:40:29

I wish I had snow here….. All we have is sun and now the tulips are coming up in force…. that’s early even for here. The ironic part. I’m from Vancouver Canada. We’re hosting the WINTER Olympics in the warmest Jan/Feb on record. Yay for global warming.

 
Comment by rich
2010-02-10 14:08:10

Crisp and sunny here in Southeast Louisiana! Come on down for a visit if you need to warm up.

Also: Bat-shovel ftw

 
Comment by rick
2010-02-10 14:28:23

I push snow for a living this winter here in Iowa, and I’ve even admitted I’m tired of the snow. I don’t remember where my driveway is, nor what the grass looks like. I love the Bat-shovel, but with as talented of an inventor as Hawk is, don’t you think he’d have a Bat inspired Snowblower?

 
Comment by Tristan
2010-02-10 15:50:24

I’m in Chicago, but it’s pretty silly out here, too. What’s weird is we had a 4.3 magnitude quake IN CHICAGO last night on top of the storm. My MINI got wrecked in an accident but thankfully i’m fine. :( you stay safe too Hawk!

 
Comment by Geoff B
2010-02-10 16:26:24

I’m pretty shocked at the weather, as is everyone else here in DC. The big problem is that there’s pretty much no budget for large snowstorms, and we’ve already had one. There’s pretty much no salt or sand left, and the plow drivers and plows are in short supply.

 
Comment by Derek B
2010-02-10 17:27:00

I am so jealous! There is next to no snow where I am and I live just north of Toronto by a few hours. Next to no snow in Canada is absurd! ABSURD!!! Of all the places to not get snow! I live right on the snow belt too! Every year, four feet of snow, minimum. Makes me want to cry. :(

 
Comment by Shidohari
2010-02-10 22:50:07

I think that this weather is pretty to look at but a pain in the backside to drive in. i feel sorry for the people in the northeast who are getting hit twice to three times as hard as we are in northern KY

 
Comment by Barista
2010-02-11 00:05:01

Having grown up in Chicago, living parts of Kansas, Missouri, several northeast states, and currently outside of Baltimore, I can only say: I hate snow.

The problem isn’t snow storms, it’s the volume we’ve gotten in this area. The system in a place like Chicago or anywhere in the frozen hell known as Canadia is used to and prepared to deal with a massive snowdump, but in places like DC, Baltimore and SE PA, we can only deal with a few inches at a time, especially in the more mountainous areas. Locally, we had 3′ dumped on us in under 24 hours this weekend, and the sidestreets were nowhere near completely cleared. Last night and today, we got another 2-3′ (depending on where you are) and it’s drifting as high as 6′ in parking lots and against buildings, and that’s in spots that were completely clean yesterday!

Some places, the snow’s over 10′ deep, which is hard to deal with in any urban area. God help me, but I never thought I’d miss Kansas.

 
Comment by Erik
2010-02-11 08:53:01

This is alot like the snow of ‘96, but this time I’m 15 not 2 so I’ll remember it.

 
Comment by kvp
2010-02-11 10:55:16

I’m a bit old but as far as I remember, this amount of snow was normal a few decades ago. This is a good example which proves that global warming is an incorrect name, because we have more energy in the system and it’s like a swing, you have more heat in one part and more cold in another and it swings between these two states faster and faster, making spring and fall shorter every year. (ps: the batshowel is epic, i just don’t know in which direction)

 
Comment by Harrison
2010-02-11 11:10:24

I gotta say, I’m loving the fact that this much snow came in my senior year of high school, and that it gave us a 6 day weekend. We’ve got a little under 2 feet right now, and it feels like I’m shoveling rocks. Good thing i don’t have to go anywhere anytime soon.

 
Comment by Jason Kenney
2010-02-11 16:00:15

It is strange that baltimore got snow and boston got a dusting.

 
Comment by Oracle
2010-02-11 19:30:28

Hmm… Isn’t round 2 called Snowpocalypse?

Love the BatShovel, where can I get one??

 
Comment by daRAT
2010-02-11 21:38:36

*sigh* here I sit in Maine, and I can see bare ground everywhere! Oh well, maybe we will get hit good with snow next month –> loves snow!

 
Comment by Ross
2010-02-12 10:32:25

My daughter was supposed to move from DC to a new apartment in Silver Spring on Saturday. She had to postpone…

 
Comment by Harknail
2010-02-12 16:18:16

I laughed out loud when I saw today’s AG Lite. Good one :-)

 
Comment by Kiefer
2010-02-12 23:10:09

liked the comic, cool shovel! and awesome work. Grew up in the tundra of northern Ontario,and your snowbank reminded me of home, awesome!

 
Comment by Sarah
2010-02-13 11:20:26

Best thing about the VA snow? 11 day weekend. More snow on Monday! 3-6 inches!
I would use the bat shovel for the non snowpocolypse flurries that we usually get.

 
Comment by MikeyD
2010-02-14 05:02:54

I’m surprised you didn’t just build a fortress of solitude.
:P

 
Comment by Gimron
2010-02-17 15:10:16

Haha, all you talking of the terrible snow, f34r my New Mexico!!!

 
Comment by Matt
2010-02-22 03:54:06

I don’t know if you know this but your website rocks…quite litteraly http://www.codeorgan.com/

 
Comment by Razor
2010-02-22 14:00:00

2/22-today’s comic (‘more human than you think’) is full of win. =D

 
Comment by ED!
2010-02-22 20:15:50

amazing new main comic today, brought a tear to my eye. keep up the good ones like that please ;)
~ED!

 
Comment by Gimron
2010-02-23 09:20:56

Oh No!!!! The snow found us, must hide !Quick, GET TO THE CHOPPER!!!

 
Comment by JohnnyElsewhere
2010-02-23 18:19:32

Hey, does anyone know how Hawk works with Photoshop?

Does he work at 600 dpi? Resize things? .. It’d be cool to know how he does his comic work. =)

 
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