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Flying North For Warmer Weather

The Redskins flew out of the DMV under a winter storm advisory, bound for Canada (eh).  I’m no meteorologist, but I hear some folks saying that this is the earliest meaningful snowfall since 1979, when the area was hit by a whopping one-third of an inch on Oct. 10.

I can’t really say that I remember it, but for the sake of this story, “it was a wild one.”

The team charter had to be de-iced before taking off today, a delay that I was more than grateful to wait out.  When we left Dulles Airport, it was 36 degrees and snowing.  When we reached Toronto, it was 7 degrees.

Celsius.

We left behind “gray” and “wet” and landed in “dreary” and “dry.”  Somewhere in between (around 30,000 feet), I saw the sun, and took a picture as proof: Read more »