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The National Weather Service said that here in Frederick MD we got the heaviest snowfall of anywhere in the Washington DC/Baltimore metro area in the Big Snow of Feb 5/6 - 33.8 inches, 86cm. Alexandria VA was reported at a respectable 28.9in 73cm. DC itself got a feeble 17.8in 45cm. All that hot air?

Longtime Forbes editor Jim Michaels has died in New York at age 86. If you like TOLLROADSnews please pay tribute to the excellence of Michaels' editorial judgment. He didn't know it but he set in train the events that led your editor here to specialize in tollroads. Back in the spring of 1995 Michaels scrawled OK on a faxed proposal for an assignment to write a piece about new developments in tollroads -