You're chilled to the core. The sight of falling snowflakes is giving less "Gilmore Girls," more "Fargo." You look at the shivering shovel in your trunk and, like a kid in a sandbox, start to wonder ...

The first storm dumped over a foot of snow in parts of the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic, including Washington, D.C., which was blanketed by over 6 inches of snowfall on Tuesday. The White House, ...