Snow in Seattle! The city is effectively shut down!

[rumguy]

This is my first winter here, and the first major snow of this winter. The city is shut down, accidents everywhere, work cancelled. A good day to stay indoors and be a political junkie.

[mmm]

1. snow can be beautiful

I like it

[caledesi]

2. I miss snow! Originally from NE and now live in Florida...

It's 75 degrees here and sunny (as usual), and in general I love it, but I must say if there is one thing that I miss, it is snow. Ah, the "snow day" - no work - nothing to do, but watch the flakes.

Enjoy rumguy!

[HereSince1628]

3. Film at 11?

[flamingyouth]

4. Yep - we're all snowed in

No work, no meetings, can't even visit my cat in the hospital. My husband walks to work, but I have to go to Bellevue, so I will be staying home.

Welcome, btw.

[madrchsod]

5. 3-5 inches according to intellicast

and this shuts down the city? tomorrow 46 and rain...must be nice.

[Bozola]

6. With the way Seattle drivers are....

a new pile of dirt along the freeway causes horrendous backups as everyone slows do to take a good long look at it.

If it rains the traffic slows, if it's sunny, it slows, but if there's even the remotest hint of snow, even if it's reported in Alaska, the traffic here comes to s screeching halt. It's pathetic really.

[rumguy]

11. LOL

I-5...sometimes I dread venturing out onto that beast.

[Pobeka]

13. Chuckling -- I am avoiding I-5 when the conditions are GOOD

Because so many people are either purposely aggressive or just bad drivers. Thank goodness I don't need to get on it for my work commute!

[cliss]

7. Yep. Same thing here in Portland.

We're under a foot of snow here. It's no fun because I can't go in to work. Got lots to do, but can't get there.

Oh well. Sigh. Guess I'll stay home and look out the window.

[rucky]

8. don't worry. The freezing rain will make it all better.

Good thing there's a big tree to stop my car from sliding down my driveway.

[HuckleB]

9. Portland -- Just went for a two hour walk with the dog and the wife!

What a blast! The stuff is everywhere! It doesn't happen often in these here parts, so you gotta have fun when it does.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. And meanwhile, back in Minneapolis

we have snow on the ground and temperatures hovering a few degrees on either side of zero and everyone is going around as if nothing happened.

But I know what you're going through. I lived in Oregon for 18 years.

[rumguy]

12. Yeah I just moved to Seattle from St. Paul

and I must say that it's the hills here that make the snow so treacherous...this city is really hilly. But beyond that, in any city that isn't used to snow, there is also a certain panic factor as well...

[Rose Siding]

15. I'm home and I love it.

My daughter stays home and there will be cocoa!

My husband is from MN- Thief River Falls, and *everytime* it snows here (Seattle) he makes the same old joke about how everyone is ready to burn the furniture and eat the children. And it cracks him up when school's cancelled.

***Don't miss Jim Foreman's reports on KING 5 (I think) He always stoops way down and points at the accumulation saying things like "It's really starting to stick out here now!". He's a riot.

[Generic Other]

17. Jim Foreman is going to be sooo pissed!

Meeghan Black the cute weathergirl wrecked the brand new fully equipped camera news suv this morning as we were watching the school closures. I nearly died laughing. She was chasing down dangerous intersections and wrecks. I saw Jim Foreman the other night on the news lovingly introducing viewers to the new news suv. What do you think he'll do when he sees what she has done? Last reports, she was heading to three garages in Ballard to get estimates. The funniest part is that they have that newfangled camera in the car to record the news as it happens...We might actually get to witness Jim Foreman strangle Meeghan later today...<Snicker>


Hurray for Union snow. Subversive weather for those who get paid to stay home!!

[Rose Siding]

18. Did chopper 5 rush in to cover the collision?

or was there a house fire? Our news is so cute.

[Generic Other]

19. No, it's hovering over the Narrow's Bridge starring at stopped traffic

Good thing nothing important happened anywhere else in the world today since they pre-empted all other programming to cover wrecks.

Not that I care. No school today!

[Rose Siding]

20. Cancelled all programming

I'm bereft. No Young and The Restless.

[SOteric]

25. Foreman is such a riot.

He'll be out there in his Arctic parka in 30-degree weather reporting on each flake as it falls from the sky.

[GOPisEvil]

26. OK - now that is hypnotic

Glad to see we southerners aren't the only ones who predict the apocalypse when a snowflake hits the ground.

*mesmerized by the skiiing smileys and flipping snowmen*

[SOteric]

27. You are growing sleeeeeepy.... You are taking off your haaat....

You are sloooowwly unbuttoning your shirt.....

[GOPisEvil]

29. But, but...it's so cold...

...come keep me warm. :crazy:

[SOteric]

32. Okay.

[GOPisEvil]

33. You know how to warm a guy up!

:7

It's a balmy 33 here right now, with winds gusting to 27mph. No snow though...we might get all the way into the 40s tomorrow. Who says Texas is tropical?

[flamingyouth]

21. I love Jim Foreman's reports

"Here I am standing at Alki Beach with 90 mph winds..."

He is truly a riot.

[flamingyouth]

22. I just came in from a walk

It is still really coming down out there. Very few cars up here on First Hill, but Swedish medical center's tiny little snow plow things have been around to clear the sidewalks.

[Generic Other]

23. I once saw him physically push all the other reporters out of the way

so he could be first on the scene of someone's septic tank overflowing!

[flamingyouth]

37. LOL

I have a friend who used to work for KING and she talked about him all the time.

[regnaD kciN]

52. I don't know if "Parka Boy" Foreman is a wingnut...

...but there are reports that, during WTO, he got in a shoving match with a female protester and wound up calling her a "crazy hippie bitch."

[DrWeird]

16. More than the hllls.

In Minnesota everybody who can reach the pedals has lots of experience driving in the snow.

Here the only people driving in the snow are insane. I think the only people out are californian transplants who have never seen the snow and figure they should go for a drive for a closer look, and people who say, "Oh Gosh! It's snowing! I better speed up so I can get home faster!"

[scottcsmith]

14. Same in Portland area

We're snowed in here in Beaverton, and I hate the friggin' snow!

[HEyHEY]

24. Aww man...I wish I was home in Vancouver...

To me there is nothing more magical than when it snows in Vancouver, because it happens so rarely, but when I was a kid it happened all the time.

Now, I'm missing all the cool snow. I long to look out my bedroom window in to the street light at 2:00 am and see the whole place getting dumped on. Then to see my street, and the hills all covered.

sniff.

[shanti]

28. i remember my first washington state snowstorm

when i was living in tacoma in 1978. we skidded on black ice, throwing out our headlights, and drove 20 miles through the forested hwy in the dark. scary stuff! :scared:

[cmf]

30. I'm one of the dumb schmucks who went to work today

It hasn't stopped snowing yet. I hope it doesn't turn to freezing rain just in time for the evening commute. Oh well, I am grateful to be out of the elements, even if I'm at work.

[GOPisEvil]

31. Didja go see The Long Winters on New Year's Eve?

I seriously thought about jumping on a plane and going. I mean, the Winters AND The Decembrists?! Whew!

Poverty kept me 'round these parts though.

By the way, I *hope* you're my fellow Long Winters fan around here. If not, just disregard me, and go on about your snowboundedness. :D

[cmf]

34. Hey There!

Nope, didn't go see the show. We had a NYE party instead. I did manage to see them at Bumbershoot this summer, though. We had planned to see the New Pornographers, but that show filled up quickly, so we hightailed it over to get in line for the Long Winters. It was great!

My manager just told me that I can go home at 1:30, so I'm outta here soon!

[GOPisEvil]

35. Be careful!

Damn...Bumbershoot...hrm...*plans possible roadie*

I got to see the New Pornographers in '03, too! Great show! The Winters need to come back to Austin dangit!

Have a safe commute home.

[cmf]

36. Thanks!

I take the ferry - possibly the only mode of transportation not affected by snow!

[flamingyouth]

38. I thought it was supposed to stop snowing by now?

Still snowing like crazy at my house. :shrug:

[SOteric]

39. Revised forecast:

It's not warming up enough to rain until much later this evening.

Accumumlations of up to 5 inches in downtown Seattle.

Put a fire under the cocoa, it's gonna stay cold.

[GOPisEvil]

40. Criminy!

This is a plot to keep people from moving to Seattle isn't it?

[SOteric]

41. Nah. This is rare...

That's what the rain, the earthquakes and the volcanoes are for.

[GOPisEvil]

42. It's not working.

Maybe I just like danger. Or, maybe I'm just tired of Texas...

[Zomby Woof]

43. cold?? hahahahahaha!!!

I loved how Seattle stopped when it snowed only an inch! :D

5 should do ya good! :bounce:

Got down to -3 last night, and we still have some of the 3 inches from the weekend, even WITH sunshine during the day.

However, it is a balmy 42 now... ah well. :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

44. Wait...it's colder HERE than THERE?!

:wtf:

It's 33 here right now. :scared:

[Zomby Woof]

45. yep!

It'll be only in the teens tonight. :scared:

[GOPisEvil]

46. Oh, we'll be in the balmy 20s.

I'll break out the swimwear.

[Spirochete]

47. Whenever it snows around here..

people have forgotten how to drive in snow. On Interstate 5 and 205, all the idiots whiz by at 70. You usually see them again a little further up the freeway, in a ditch, or parked half-on and half-off a median. Or they end up skidding into a slower moving car, and bring all the traffic to a complete halt.

On edit: the typing lessons still havent kicked in yet.

[philosophie_en_rose]

48. The hills are alive!

I had some chains left over from college and woke up early to install them. I can't believe how long it took to drive home. So many cars stalled in the middle of the street. So many children sliding down the streets.

On the other hand, emergency personnel are doing a wonderful job of herding the vehicles.

[flamingyouth]

50. Speaking of emergency personnel

I just heard a Medic One come by and the driver shouted through his speaker:

"DIDN'T ANYONE TELL YOU YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO MOVE OVER FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES?!?!??"

Sounds like someone is having a VERY stressful day - poor guy.

[Tripper11]

49. Just found this at a radio site....

"This morning on KING 5 they were out in their 'Storm Cruiser' on the streets of Seattle. It is more or less a 4 wheel drive with a camera in it.

As they were driving down one of the hills talking about how slick it was and people should stay off the roads they slammed into the back of a car. Live on TV."

[rumguy]

51. now that is funny

wish I had seen it...