Dover, DE. - A prolonged blizzard covered the Delaware state capital, and the mid-Atlantic states in a smothering canvass of snow Saturday, grounding planes and triggering widespread power outages as people across the region turned to skis and sleds to traverse icy roads.

The storm proved a major disruption, with trolleys and buses in the Dover area shutting down and stores closing en masse in the face of a storm destined to go down as one of the major snowfalls in the area's history.

But perhaps the greatest damage has been done to the English language. Weathermen, with really nothing to report other than, “It’s snowing”, have turned to coining terms to describe the storm. Snowmageddon, snowpocalypse, snowtastrophe, snowclysm, snowlocaust, snowlamity, and snowzaster (which would be an excellent name for a religous cult) were just some of the neologistic offerings used to assault the mother tongue this weekend. Move over Bennifer, Bragelina, and Billary!