An Imprecise Geography of Obnoxious Snowstorm Nicknames

The Washington Post Capital Weather Gang declared over the weekend that the late-winter snowstorm currently barreling across the country shall forever be known by history (and Twitter) by this politically of-the-moment moniker: The Snowquester! (The Post apparently learned nothing from the Weather Channel about the perils of unilaterally naming winter blizzards.)

One obvious problem with this epithet: No one outside of Washington wants to talk about the sequester (or uses it as a frame of reference for anything). Meanwhile, plenty of people outside of Washington live in the path of this storm, from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic to the Northeast. It is, however, a classic Washington move to forget that all these other people exist.