Is today a "snowpocalypse"?

Today's snowstorm is nothin' compared to 1967, 1979, or even last week's storm that buried the mid-Atlantic states.

But alarmist weather reports, which seem to be increasingly common, have added new words to our lexicon which we use to describe today's storm - or any snowfall of more than six inches.

Among them:

• Snowpocalypse

• Snowtastrophe

• Snowmaggedon

• Snowlamity

• Snownami

• Brobdingsnowgian (a reference to the huge proportions of the giants in the novel "Gulliver's Travels")

• White Flakes of Death

• Flakeamundo!

• Snowzilla

• Or, to quote The Simpson's weatherman Kent Brockman, a "Class 3 Kill-Storm!"

One person joked that a disastrous snow that wipes you out is called a Snow Lee Cohen.

But if none of this amuses you, there's always the joke by 89-year-old Arnold Zars of Arlington Heights: "Hope the snow keeps up." Why? "So it won't come down."

Daily Herald Staff contributed to this report.