Snow!

[thomryng]

It never ceases to amaze me that we get a couple of inches of snow and this region simply shuts down.

Sure, there's ice and hills and such, but it really shouldn't be taking people four hours to get from Tacoma to SeaTac.

Needless to say, school is canceled. In fact, I doubt there's a school open between here and the Canadian border.

I'm sitting in the parlour in my robe and fuzzy slippers. Coffee's brewing.

Comments

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Nope! UW-Seattle is open. Every other school is closed.

[thomryng.livejournal.com]

Lucky you!

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Yes. And unfortunately I live close enough to walk, need be.

[cyclometh.livejournal.com]

I've lived here for my whole life and only once has it been this bad, in 1996 after an ice storm that knocked out power for two weeks to my office.

I drove a four-wheel drive truck to Tacoma and it took well over an hour because Interstate 5 was literally compact snow and ice from Olympia to Lakewood. I took the train, but the roads were so bad that you literally couldn't accelerate or brake without sliding.

What's amazing is that I made it to the office at all; turns out the campus is closed today, but I didn't find out until I got here.

[thomryng.livejournal.com]

the campus is closed today

D'oh! Whaddaya gonna do now?

[cyclometh.livejournal.com]

Well, they didn't lock the doors or anything. The cafeterias are all closed, but there's people here working. I'm just going to do my thing and leave early so I can make the train.

[thomryng.livejournal.com]

Wow. Good luck with that!

Francine is working from home today.

Of course my current project is on the computer at work and I neglected to bring a copy. Not that I'm hurting for projects to work on, you understand, but I'd rather prefer to get the ones with closer deadlines out of the way first.

[pi-radical.livejournal.com]

My school, unfortunately, was only on a 2-hour delay. And it took me just over 2 hours to get there. What a coincidence!

The roads are horrible--I-5 isn't too bad down here, but earlier (when I needed it) it was closed, so I had to take horrendous back roads. It usually takes me about 20 minutes to get to work. 2 hours?!!

[gaelfarce.livejournal.com]

I may have to steal some of that coffee! Snowy Scrabble?

Oh and Skycomish is open but they're the only one north of Thurston county and west of the mountains.

Dammit, I'm missing it... figures...

[starkad67.livejournal.com]

It's sunny and warm here... tee-shirt and shorts weather, easily!

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

Apparently both the U and the Seattle Community College system are open. My office is closed, saving me the walk in to downtown -- I'm working from home today.

Friends are saying this is among the worst ice storms they've seen hit this region -- one said the surface streets are luge courses. And of course, we don't have the heavy equipment the Eastern states do.

[singingbarista.livejournal.com]

Coming from a snowy climate, there are a couple of reasons why snow shuts down the area.

There are not very many snow plows and sanding trucks.
Cars never are equipped with snow tires, and people don't have chains.

It's not like people are stupid. In cities like Chicago and states like Montana, we are prepared. We have the tools necessary to travel in the snow and ice.

Monday night, fully-loaded busses were sliding off the road.