With just hours left before Irene pummels New York City, we can all agree on one thing: hurricanes aren't funny. They're scary!

Thundersnow is the term used to describe the simultaneous presence of thunder and snow (duh). Here, Weather Channel personality Jim Cantore, reporting from the streets in Chicago last night, gets startled by some thundersnow. His reaction is appropriately crazy.

Jim Cantore was muzzled by his corporate overlords; Martha Stewart was kept quiet by Neil Cavuto; and Ezra Klein was hushed in Yiddish. The Twitterati were hushed in only the most interesting ways.