snowstorm
dblum | February 7, 2010Just before this weekend's stunning snow storm arrived in the Mid-Atlantic, poison control centers started issuing chirps of alarm.
I thought of them as chirps - something like the peeping alarm calls of small birds - because they sounded so faint against the other looming worries - adequate food supplies, airport closures, shut downs in government services.
And yet the fact is that more people have already been poisoned as a result of the monster storm than have suffered from starvation. The Washington Post today reported eight people treated for carbon monoxide poisoning and in…