I leave for Los Angeles tomorrow morning. It's supposed to be 72 and sunny. After the freak ice storm in DC yesterday, I may never come home.

Fifty-two school buses were involved in accidents in Montgomery and Fairfax counties, officials said.

Police in Montgomery and Northern Virginia reported hundreds of accidents, mostly minor, including a 16-car, chain-reaction collision on Interstate 66 and a 20-car smashup on Rockville Pike. There were so many crashes on I-66 that Virginia state troopers got out of their sliding patrol cars and walked gingerly from one bunch of crumpled metal to the next. Backups on the Dulles Toll Road stretched as long as 15 miles.