I do remember the blizzard of 2003 well. I live in Columbia, Maryland. We actually started out with a lower snowfall total, we had already had 7 inches on the ground before the storm began, and on Saturday, the 15th, had 3 inches in the morning, then there was no snow. On Sunday, the 16th during the day we had constant heavy snow and wind, and we had about 13 inches of snow during the day. Our accumulation to 28 inches came in a strange way, it was from a mixture of snow and sleet Sunday night and Monday morning. The sleet came down fast and furious, and I had stuck a ruler out on the deck. Usually, sleet does not accumulate, but like in 1994, this time, it did, it actually added about 13 more inches to the snowfall total, I guess enough snow was mixed in to do that. After a respite Monday, 1.5 inches more snow fell Tuesday morning. Snow was up to our Jeep top and we could not move for 4 days. Then, the following weekend, the rains came, and led to lots of flooding and roof damage.

It was quite a storm, probably worse than 93, 96, and 83, all of which I remember from this area and were quite bad. Had the 83 storm lasted a few hours longer, it would have exceeded this one as it was a far worse drifting storm with more wind and that one had thunder and lightning.

I don't think that 2005 will produce a blizzard, but I think our next one may happen in 2006.

i will never forget that big snow storm. I'm from Europe and two years ago i came to Maryland for a few days to be with my boyfriend and we were stuck in the house looking out, could not go anywhere...i had never seen so much snow falling..i had never seen cars buried deep....my boyfriend was laughing at me a little....i must have had the scariest face ever...like one of those actors in.The Day After....well...the good thing was that we spent most of the time under the blankets...