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fenchurchSo, by now most of you have probably heard that we're getting snow here in the Seattle area. A British friend of a friend posted on her Facebook this morning saying that the projected snowstorm had even made it to BBC evening news last night! o_O Seriously, it's bad (for here), but not THAT horrible. We get storms like this every few years and everything comes to a complete standstill.
We had the first stormfront blow through yesterday and I must admit I panicked a bit at the amount of snow coming down (assuming there was a good chance it would be like that for the rest of the day). So, I put off taking a shower and headed out to run the few errands I needed to get done. Costco was great... no lines for fuel! Petsmart was packed and it turned out they'd only had two actual employees show up for work today... the rest of the staff there were management. The funniest, though, was Home Depot where there were, I kid you not, a good three employees for every customer. It was wild! Orange aprons everywhere and you couldn't go more than a few steps without encountering someone who wanted to know if they could help you. It was freaky. And then it turned out that I'd ended up out in what was probably the worst part of yesterday's storm. D'oh!
Shoveled the driveway of the three-ish inches that fell while I was gone and then started in on storm prep (since, in addition to the snow, they were predicting winds (which never arrived)), pushing laundry through and getting various electronic devices charging in case of power outage (heavy wet snow + tree branches + winds = downed powerlines).
The second storm hit overnight and we woke to another three to four inches on top of what we got yesterday. Around here, it's practically the apocalypse.
And here's a view from the front porch, taken right beforerackham went out to tackle things with the snow shovel... my shoulders aren't doing too badly, but really can't handle two days of shoveling in a row.
Keep in mind that the porch (and railings), the walkway and the driveway were all cleared off yesterday... so all of that is new snow.
And yeah, it doesn't look like much compared to some places... but around here, we have a LOT of hills, not a lot of plows and a whole lot of a people who have no idea how to drive on snow. Best thing to do is stay at home when this happens! With any luck, it will be melted by the weekend, since things are supposed to turn into rain later this week... which will bring a completely different set of problems in the form of flooding.
Crossposted from my Livejournal
We had the first stormfront blow through yesterday and I must admit I panicked a bit at the amount of snow coming down (assuming there was a good chance it would be like that for the rest of the day). So, I put off taking a shower and headed out to run the few errands I needed to get done. Costco was great... no lines for fuel! Petsmart was packed and it turned out they'd only had two actual employees show up for work today... the rest of the staff there were management. The funniest, though, was Home Depot where there were, I kid you not, a good three employees for every customer. It was wild! Orange aprons everywhere and you couldn't go more than a few steps without encountering someone who wanted to know if they could help you. It was freaky. And then it turned out that I'd ended up out in what was probably the worst part of yesterday's storm. D'oh!
Shoveled the driveway of the three-ish inches that fell while I was gone and then started in on storm prep (since, in addition to the snow, they were predicting winds (which never arrived)), pushing laundry through and getting various electronic devices charging in case of power outage (heavy wet snow + tree branches + winds = downed powerlines).
The second storm hit overnight and we woke to another three to four inches on top of what we got yesterday. Around here, it's practically the apocalypse.
And here's a view from the front porch, taken right before
rackham went out to tackle things with the snow shovel... my shoulders aren't doing too badly, but really can't handle two days of shoveling in a row.Keep in mind that the porch (and railings), the walkway and the driveway were all cleared off yesterday... so all of that is new snow.
And yeah, it doesn't look like much compared to some places... but around here, we have a LOT of hills, not a lot of plows and a whole lot of a people who have no idea how to drive on snow. Best thing to do is stay at home when this happens! With any luck, it will be melted by the weekend, since things are supposed to turn into rain later this week... which will bring a completely different set of problems in the form of flooding.
Crossposted from my Livejournal
