The Snow That Ate Seattle

So yeah, it doesn’t snow too often in the Seattle area.  We typically get a dusting once or twice a year that sticks on the road for a day or two and then the temps rise, the rain returns and the snow is gone in a flash.  This December, we’ve had 12 days of snow and ice and it’s causing this area major trouble.  We’ve had no UPS deliveries, no trash pick up (going on 2 weeks now).  Here are a few news headlines with links:

Snow begins to melt as state, county declare emergencies
Christmas outage affected 18,000 PSE customers on Eastside

No plows or sanding/de-icing trucks can even make it up and down the steep hill of our neighborhood.  Some  cars have been stuck in the middle of the street for a week.  The office closed down due to the bad unplowed roads on several days, so Brooke and I were able to go out and enjoy the winter a little bit while running errands.

I just wanted to show off a couple of photos I took to let those of you in hot places see my snowy winter wonderland. 

A powder-covered magical forest outside

Outside our living room windows shows a foot of snow on the deck railings

We had so much snow, our neighbors made a 6' tall snowman

I grew up in the LA area and it never snowed.  I never got to go sledding down icy slopes, make snowmen, have snowball fights behind an ice fort, or get out of going to school because it was a snow day (we did get out of school if there was an earthquake, does that count?).  In fact, I didn’t see snow fall from the sky until I was 21 years old.  It is always astounding for me to watch it snow and listen to how whisper quiet it makes everything outdoors. It’s a shame that it was hard on some and transportation was a bear, but this gal from sunny So. Cal had a great week.