Saturday we drove up to the nearest mountain pass to Seattle called Snoqualmie. It's about a 35 mile drive from the city. They had been dumped on with snow (while the rest of us down below got rain) for the last month. I bundled my husband up in a spare pair of long underwear, some extra layers, hiking socks, and did the same for myself. Because the 'tubing' and sledding hills haven't opened yet, nothing was groomed. We, alongside loads of other people, comandeered a ski hill that had yet to open. We had to climb the hill in order sled down it on our saucers. Talk about a workout-every step we were crotch-deep in snow. Anyway, photo is coming (once hubby wakes up and shows me how to connect the camera).
In the last 2+ years I've seen snow fall here in Seattle two, maybe three times. It never sticks. People freak out. They don't salt or sand the roads, for the most part. No one knows how to drive when it snows, despite a large part of the Seattle population being transplants from other parts of the country. Come to think of it, people don't know how to drive in the rain, either, and as the stereotype goes, it rains often in Seattle. I should say, it 'spits', but I digress. We got hit with a lot of snow-snow that actually stuck!!
Photos courtesy of the Seattle Times.
2 comments:
"No one knows how to drive when it snows, despite a large part of the Seattle population being transplants from other parts of the country. Come to think of it, people don't know how to drive in the rain,"
People are the same way in Texas its funny, they close all the schools down if there is half an inch of snow on the ground, and then comes the dozens of accidents during the day.
It makes me shake my head.
I can't tell you how awful traffic is here on a rainy day!! I was coaching one of my colleagues on the phone last night while she sat in traffic-trying to help her avoid the slide on the ice.
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