“It’s the worst I’ve seen in weather here! Ever! Must run to your restaurants for cover!”
– Local hair maven Paul Wharton in a tweet to chef Jose Andres during the storm that savaged the region Saturday night. (Andres tweeted back, “Glad you are safe.”) Wharton was driving on the GW Parkway when the weather turned. “We went from singing ‘Call Me Maybe’ to screaming for our lives,” he later told Yeas & Nays.