"snow day"

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Cindy Fuller said:

We're experiencing our first Seattle snowstorm of the year. BIG FAT HAIRY DEAL, by my upstate NY
standards. Here in NE Seattle we have barely an inch. Other parts of the area, mostly to the north
and south, are getting significantly more. The college where I teach is closed (on the second day
of class). The temperature is supposed to warm up as the day goes on and the snow will change to
the usual rain.

Remember that normally this area doesn't get snow until late February/early March (and everyone
still acts surprised when it shows up), nobody knows how to drive in the snow, and it's more the
ice that will ensue when that rain shows up and the flooding when it all starts to melt that is
scary. Look up information about the ice storm of 1996. I was married in the middle of that. Our
string quartet wasn't able to show, entire freeways were shut down in Oregon and I think
Washington, too, the floods washed out highways and towns three times that year. On our
honeymoon, which we spent on the coast, we had to drive through some of the damaged areas, and we
were wondering if our honeymoon would last longer than we planned.

Regards, Ranee (who has about 5 inches here, where we normally only get a dusting at best)

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Cindy Fuller <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

We're experiencing our first Seattle snowstorm of the year. BIG FAT HAIRY DEAL, by my upstate NY
standards.

Me too - I'm here in PDX. I'm originally from Chicago. It cracks me up the way people are
freaking out.

Quoted message said:

Here in NE Seattle we have barely an inch. Other parts of the area, mostly to the north and
south, are getting significantly more. The college where I teach is closed (on the second day of
class). The temperature is supposed to warm up as the day goes on and the snow will change to the
usual rain.

We had about 4 inches this AM, which then changed to freezing rain (ice balls). Even the garbage
trucks didn't show this AM. It's still coming down.

Quoted message said:

OB Food: Feels like a good day to put the baking stone in the oven and make a pizza.

I made baked burritos for lunch and this PM it is veggie gyros. DH is stuck in CA. 🙁

-L.

Cindy Fuller said:

We're experiencing our first Seattle snowstorm of the year. BIG FAT HAIRY DEAL, by my upstate NY
standards.

Big fat hairy deal was taking an hour and a half to get home at 20 miles an hour (despite 4 wheel
drive and really good tires), and waiting at the top of every hill for no traffic coming up so I
could simply slide to the bottom, and fishtailing at every bend of 512. My hands are spasming from
all the gripping I did. And this from a Kansan. It is the snow over the ice that is so bad, and now
it we are having a sleet storm, and there'll be ice on the snow on the ice by tomarrow, and I will
be late to work. BTW, statistically speaking, this will be the last Seattle snowstorm of the year.
blacksalt ObFood: something hot

Ranee Mueller said:

Regards, Ranee (who has about 5 inches here, where we normally only get a dusting at best)

5" for us too.

I had to drive to work in the 1996 snow & then drive back home 1 hour later when the boss (who was
in Hawaii) decided to let us go home after much discussion with our on-site manager. The snow before
that I think was 1986. We were out of school for a week.

Denise, Brian & Wyatt (May 31, 02)

How much Healthy Choice ice cream can I eat before it's no longer a healthy choice?

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ranee Mueller said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Cindy Fuller

Quoted message said:

We're experiencing our first Seattle snowstorm of the year. BIG FAT HAIRY DEAL, by my upstate NY
standards. Here in NE Seattle we have barely an inch. Other parts of the area, mostly to the
north and south, are getting significantly more. The college where I teach is closed (on the
second day of class). The temperature is supposed to warm up as the day goes on and the snow
will change to the usual rain.

Remember that normally this area doesn't get snow until late February/early March (and everyone
still acts surprised when it shows up), nobody knows how to drive in the snow, and it's more
the ice that will ensue when that rain shows up and the flooding when it all starts to melt
that is scary. Look up information about the ice storm of 1996. I was married in the middle of
that. Our string quartet wasn't able to show, entire freeways were shut down in Oregon and I
think Washington, too, the floods washed out highways and towns three times that year. On our
honeymoon, which we spent on the coast, we had to drive through some of the damaged areas, and
we were wondering if our honeymoon would last longer than we planned.

The snow intensified after I posted the original message. We have about 6 inches now. One of the
local TV stations showed nostalgia footage of the storm of '96, where marinas and flat-top buildings
simply collapsed from the weight of the snow. Some of the neighborhood kids used our one-block
street as a sledding course. There's a nice little mogul before you get to the end that helps stop
you before you hit the intersection with the main drag.

Pizza it is for tonight. The dough is rising as I type.

Stay warm down there!

Cindy

--
C.J. Fuller

Delete the obvious to email me

-L. said:

Cindy Fuller <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<cjfullerSPAMORAMA-
[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

We're experiencing our first Seattle snowstorm of the year. BIG FAT HAIRY DEAL, by my upstate NY
standards.

Me too - I'm here in PDX. I'm originally from Chicago. It cracks me up the way people are
freaking out.

Quoted message said:

Here in NE Seattle we have barely an inch. Other parts of the area, mostly to the north and
south, are getting significantly more. The college where I teach is closed (on the second day of
class). The temperature is supposed to warm up as the day goes on and the snow will change to the
usual rain.

We had about 4 inches this AM, which then changed to freezing rain (ice balls). Even the garbage
trucks didn't show this AM. It's still coming down.

Quoted message said:

OB Food: Feels like a good day to put the baking stone in the oven and make a pizza.

I made baked burritos for lunch and this PM it is veggie gyros. DH is stuck in CA. 🙁

-L.

Yes, you may have a point. But just remember this very provable fact. That traffic goes to [censored] when
it rains here. And it also goes south when the sun shines too brightly. Maybe it's just that driving
is such a non-starter here.

But I will say that days like today make the presence of light rail and the monorail a might bit
appealing.
--
Alan

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might bet-
ter stay home."
-- James Michener

Hark! I heard Denise~* <[email hidden]> say:

Quoted message said:

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:28:17 -0800, Ranee Mueller <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Ranee (who has about 5 inches here, where we normally only get a dusting at best)

Quoted message said:

5" for us too.

We've got about 6" here (near Shelton). A neighbor is toodling around in a snow mobile! I've never
seen such a thing, outside of tv.

Quoted message said:

I had to drive to work in the 1996 snow & then drive back home 1 hour later when the boss (who was
in Hawaii) decided to let us go home after much discussion with our on-site manager.

Gee, that was big of him. I remember that storm -- we were without power or water for 6 days. Small
Child hadn't been born yet, so he was the only warm person in the house. ;-)

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The snow before that I think was 1986. We were out of school for a week.

I think you're right about the date. I remember my car being stuck in my driveway in Bremerton,
unable to get to work in Seattle...

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j.j. ~ mom, gamer, novice cook ~ ..fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!

Cindy Fuller said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Ranee Mueller

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Cindy Fuller

Quoted message said:

We're experiencing our first Seattle snowstorm of the year. BIG FAT HAIRY DEAL, by my upstate NY
standards. Here in NE Seattle we have barely an inch. Other parts of the area, mostly to the
north and south, are getting significantly more. The college where I teach is closed (on the
second day of class). The temperature is supposed to warm up as the day goes on and the snow will
change to the usual rain.

Remember that normally this area doesn't get snow until late February/early March (and everyone
still acts surprised when it shows up), nobody knows how to drive in the snow, and it's more
the ice that will ensue when that rain shows up and the flooding when it all starts to melt
that is scary. Look up information about the ice storm of 1996. I was married in the middle of
that. Our string quartet wasn't able to show, entire freeways were shut down in Oregon and I
think Washington, too, the floods washed out highways and towns three times that year. On our
honeymoon, which we spent on the coast, we had to drive through some of the damaged areas, and
we were wondering if our honeymoon would last longer than we planned.

The snow intensified after I posted the original message. We have about 6 inches now. One of the
local TV stations showed nostalgia footage of the storm of '96, where marinas and flat-top
buildings simply collapsed from the weight of the snow. Some of the neighborhood kids used our one-
block street as a sledding course. There's a nice little mogul before you get to the end that
helps stop you before you hit the intersection with the main drag.

Pizza it is for tonight. The dough is rising as I type.

Stay warm down there!

Cindy

Back during the "blizzard of 90," we did get about two feet of snow in 24 hours. Because of the
extreme cold, it did not melt for another two to three weeks, including another dumping of 12 more
inches. Be thankful for today's brevity.
--
Alan

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might bet-
ter stay home."
-- James Michener

Quoted message said:

I think you're right about the date. I remember my car being stuck in my driveway in Bremerton,
unable to get to work in Seattle...

I actually drove to Crystal Mountain and went skiing in that snowstorm. There was probably close to
two feet of snow on the car at the end of the day. That was a hairy drive from Poulsbo...

Hasta, Curt Nelson

alzelt <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Yes, you may have a point. But just remember this very provable fact. That traffic goes to [censored]
when it rains here. And it also goes south when the sun shines too brightly. Maybe it's just that
driving is such a non-starter here.

What I don't get s this: Why the heck can't they design the roads better to handle the rain? (Not to
mention the logging trucks.) I realize the numb nuts drive with snow studs on I-5 and 205 and ruin
the roads, but even in places where the roads are in good shape, water pools on them.

Quoted message said:

But I will say that days like today make the presence of light rail and the monorail a might bit
appealing.

No doubt. I'm a huge fan of pub trans. I'm lucky - I no longer have to work. 😉

-L.

In article <[email hidden]>,

alzelt said:

Back during the "blizzard of 90," we did get about two feet of snow in 24 hours. Because of the
extreme cold, it did not melt for another two to three weeks, including another dumping of 12 more
inches. Be thankful for today's brevity.

Having lived in other places where snow and snow driving are anomalies (Greensboro, Dallas), I am
used to snow hysteria among the media and the masses. But I grew up where a snowstorm wasn't
respectable unless it dumped 2-4 feet with blowing and drifting--and had subzero windchills. The SBF
also must have been amazed at her first Seattle winter.

School doesn't open until 10 today, so I can wait out some of the commuters and have a less
cluttered shot to campus.

Cindy

--
C.J. Fuller

Delete the obvious to email me

hee hee When I moved from Winnipeg (Canada) to Philadelphia, I couldn't BELIEVE the 24-hour news
coverage of a snow flurry. Have a mocha fuzz :-) Tara Danielle NJ

Cindy Fuller <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<cjfullerSPAMORAMA-
[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

We're experiencing our first Seattle snowstorm of the year. BIG FAT HAIRY DEAL, by my upstate NY
standards. Here in NE Seattle we have barely an inch. Other parts of the area, mostly to the north
and south, are getting significantly more. The college where I teach is closed (on the second day
of class). The temperature is supposed to warm up as the day goes on and the snow will change to
the usual rain.

OB Food: Feels like a good day to put the baking stone in the oven and make a pizza.

Cindy

kalanamak <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Cindy Fuller said:

We're experiencing our first Seattle snowstorm of the year. BIG FAT HAIRY DEAL, by my upstate NY
standards.

Big fat hairy deal was taking an hour and a half to get home at 20 miles an hour (despite 4 wheel
drive and really good tires), and waiting at the top of every hill for no traffic coming up so I
could simply slide to the bottom, and fishtailing at every bend of 512. My hands are spasming from
all the gripping I did. And this from a Kansan. It is the snow over the ice that is so bad, and
now it we are having a sleet storm, and there'll be ice on the snow on the ice by tomarrow, and I
will be late to work. BTW, statistically speaking, this will be the last Seattle snowstorm of the
year. blacksalt ObFood: something hot

4WD really isn't much of an advantage when you're talkin' ice. Most of the vehicles in the medians
around here after an ice bath are 4WD, because the idiots who drive them think the 4WD will work on
any surface.

N.

O.

In article <[email hidden]>, kalanamak says...

Quoted message said:

Cindy Fuller said:

We're experiencing our first Seattle snowstorm of the year. BIG FAT HAIRY DEAL, by my upstate NY
standards.

Big fat hairy deal was taking an hour and a half to get home at 20 miles an hour (despite 4 wheel
drive and really good tires), and waiting at the top of every hill for no traffic coming up so I
could simply slide to the bottom, and fishtailing at every bend of 512. My hands are spasming from
all the gripping I did. And this from a Kansan. It is the snow over the ice that is so bad, and now
it we are having a sleet storm, and there'll be ice on the snow on the ice by tomarrow, and I will
be late to work. BTW, statistically speaking, this will be the last Seattle snowstorm of the year.
blacksalt ObFood: something hot

I have to admit I was not as thrilled as I should have been when I got a set of Bridgestone Blizzack
snowtires on my SUV as a Christmas present (who gets tires???so romantic) After yesterday's trip
from Anacortes to Redmond I became enthralled with them.

April

"Wild salmon don't do drugs"

Hark! I heard alzelt <[email hidden]> say:

Quoted message said:

Back during the "blizzard of 90," we did get about two feet of snow in 24 hours. Because of the
extreme cold, it did not melt for another two to three weeks, including another dumping of 12 more
inches. Be thankful for today's brevity.

Was that '90 or maybe '89? I lived in Pennsylvania from 88-89, and while it was cold and unusually
dry there that year, my mother told me that while I was gone, it snowed like crazy here in WA. She
kept talking about a cold front coming out of Alaska. Not that it really matters, just curious...

--
j.j. ~ mom, gamer, novice cook ~ ..fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Back during the "blizzard of 90," we did get about two feet of snow in 24 hours. Because of the
extreme cold, it did not melt for another two to three weeks, including another dumping of 12 more
inches. Be thankful for today's brevity.
--
Alan

I remember that storm! I had just moved here from Alaska and was in the "what's the big deal" mind.
I recall driving on 520(by Microsoft) a few days later and seeing all these really expensive sports
cars and SUV's just abandoned on the road. I think that storm hit without much warning.

April

Quoted message said:

"Wild salmon don't do drugs"