One interesting thing is the context about the word. When used last year in Seattle and this year for the east coast, the term refers to actual snowstorms that caused major problems. If I'm guessing correctly, that would be the context in which UChicagoans used it, as Chicago actually gets real snow more than once a decade.
But during the period that it was in use on Seattle Gothic, it was primarily used in a mocking context when we didn't have snow, or so very little that the media hype was amusing. That's the same context Colleen and Anthony used it in the posts I linked, and possibly Tiffany's too (I haven't looked up her posts).
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Date: 2009-12-24 07:25 pm (UTC)But during the period that it was in use on Seattle Gothic, it was primarily used in a mocking context when we didn't have snow, or so very little that the media hype was amusing. That's the same context Colleen and Anthony used it in the posts I linked, and possibly Tiffany's too (I haven't looked up her posts).