I don’t know what other parts of the country are calling the blizzard which just finished walloping the East Coast, but the Washington Post decided its name was Snowzilla. And where I live, in Glengary, West Virginia, that name has certainly been earned, because as you can see by the final snow totals from the National Weather Service, we’re #1!

But even before it was all over, by 3:45 p.m. Saturday, the New York Times had already declared Glengary the winner.

That earlier mention of Glengary led to a several fun and fascinating side effects, beginning with a photo I’d posted online of me sitting out back on a bench being shared on Twitter by Darren Rovell, an ESPN reporter with more than a million followers. His tweet was liked and retweeted hundreds of times, eventually coming to the attention of both Good Morning America and the BBC.

I was contacted Saturday by Good Morning America, who wanted to interview me Sunday morning, which resulted in me setting my alarm for 5:30 a.m., and when I woke, I saw the BBC had reached out at me as well.

Which led to me sitting in the snow while I Skyped with a GMA reporter in advance of the show, footage which does not seem to have been used based on yesterday’s Good Morning America episode. That makes sense, though, considering the sun had not yet risen, so not much could be seen through the darkness of what the blizzard had wrought.

But things went much better with the BBC, since by around 8:15 a.m., when I Skyped with their correspondent, the sun had already come up. Check out what my UK friends saw live yesterday morning.

I think that went rather well.

One thing which made this unexpected fame even more fun is that the instant I finished with the interview and closed the Skype app on my iPhone, I was alerted to a Facebook notification. It was Des Lewis, a UK editor who’d published two stories of mine in Nemonymous, posting that he’d JUST seen me live on the BBC.

What a small and interconnected world in which we now live!

And now you’ll have to excuse me—I need to go outside and shovel some more snow!