That is the actual title of an article at the Tacoma News Tribune.
Methinks someone is overdoing it.
Anyway, we’re getting an above-standard Winter whiteout here in the PacNW. 5-6 inches here at Firebase Blue already, with another 5-6 on its way. Prior to sitting down at the blogstation, I was playing with my new toy (see post below) and am about to get me some breakfast. The news stations are in full freak out mode and I’m itching to go for a spin (aka: doing donuts at the Park & Ride). As long as the power stays on, that’ll be my plan for the next 24-36 hours.
The wind is beginning to pick up a bit, so I’m getting flashbacks of 2006, when we had the wind and the snow arrive at the same time and there was no power for a few days and King County, WA saw fist fights at the fuel pumps.But I’m not worried. I filled up the fuel tanks of Bull and Buddy’s yesterday and am otherwise good to go here. Because, when you’re ready for the zombie apocalypse, a snow storm is just a few flakes.
18 inches of accumulation in Oly.
I’m up in Everett yawning at the general freakout (WI native here, folks). I don’t get excited at anything less than 10 inches in 24 hours.
I am, however, staying home from work today, because the vast majority of my fellow PacNWers have no effing clue how to drive on snow & ice.
Yeppers staying home, I would agree with you all.Having been borned in
San Diego,Ca I can spot Ca.’s on the road.Phil needs to post some pic’s of him
at the park and ride.
Yah, we got 6-8″ in Redmond, now icing over nicely with a crust of freezing rain. The normally very busy road 150 yards from my house is as quiet at rush hour as it normally is at 1 AM. It’s slushy and wet, but not to bad. With freezing rain coming, that’ll change. Everything OFF of the main road, however, is totally flocked in. Lost of pricey SUVs around here w/o chains, studs, or clues, but at least most of them are smart enough to stay home. School is out, so all the neighborhood kids are sledding, and some great snowmen have been built. Lots of bright orange and black varied thrushes in the local apple trees that still have a few fruit clinging to the branches. Got wool, keeping warm.
Similar stuff down here in the Bay Area, but instead of snow it’s rain. Should be hitting us starting at noon and not let up for a week. Oh the horror!
Luckily I already got a nice tan from walking the dog at lunch the last few days. Nyah nyah.
We now have about 26 degrees and raining. A good plate of ice is forming everywhere, particularly the hills and my steep driveway. An unusually good day to stay home, other than sledding…. unless I need to get some plumbing or electrical parts…. Did I mention the overflow upstairs that resulted in water coming into the garage… right above the furnace? Ah, the glory of it all! A FINE winter day it is!
God, I wish I’d made MrsZ take video during the drive to work last winter’s blizzard. Something like 20″ of snow in ten hours, with winds to make it more fun. I had to be at work, so I left early, punched it in 4-HI and drove slow. Awesome drive in, blasted a few snowbanks up and over the truck.
I don’t get people who get excited about anything less than a foot.
We got a bit over a foot of total accumulation up here in Marysville. Haven’t really had any freezing rain, just snow and more snow. It’s finally stopped snowing within the last couple hours… news now says more might be on the way and then we’ll get a big warmup and woo, incoming flooding.
I’ve been enjoying the weather, I wouldn’t mind getting snow like this every year.
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Many PNW’ers do just fine in the snow, thank you very much. Of course, the ones who live on the West Side of the Cascades are a different breed, who can’t even figure out how to make their Utility Companies build power lines that don’t go down with every decent snow/ice storm, and they have issues anytime frozen precipitation shows up.
East Siders have no such problems. We drive in nasty conditions, sometimes for months on end, and manage just fine. Out power seldom goes out, and never, in the 40+ years I’ve lived in the Columbia Basin, has our power been out for longer than 3 hours.
NOT ALL PNW’ers live on the wet side, or are slick road challenged!