Snow blogging
This area got hit with what amounted to a minor snowfall, but around here it’s pretty bad. Being from Wisconsin, I generally scoff at the notion of 3″ of snow putting a damper on anything, but here I sit at home unable to get to work. Basic problem is, this place is extremely hilly (Seattle is largely composed of several drumlins and glacial till dumped next to a couple of deep flooded valleys, one filled by Puget Sound and the other by Lake Washington). Thus, when we do get snow it’s usually when warm moisture-laden Pacific air collides with cold Canadian air. So it either dumps a lot of snow that melts in a day or, if the cold air mass stays around, we get wet snow that partially melts and then freezes. Which it did overnight. Hence, the streets are ice-covered. It doesn’t snow very often so there’s no point investing in a lot of snow-removal equipment, so we muddle through as best we can.
Anyway, here are a couple of pics. Latter is Marvin, one of several hummingbirds gathered around the feeding station in the front.
Indeed.
Here in Vancouver we closed the airport, skidded off the road and generally raised our fists in defiance at the weather.
Along with the heavy rain and boil water advisory, it’s been quite the month here.
Comment by CamArchGrad — November 30, 2006 @ 9:21 pm