SNOW in SEATTLE ((picture thread))

prob about 4 in places its had a chance to accumulate

5" on top of yesterday's ice.
A gaggle of snowboarders+dog+beer just went down(closed)Belmont - and don't seem to be coming back up.

New Capitol Hill Slogan: Every Other Street Closed for Your Wintery Pleasure!

there's about one foot of snow on my patio table and it's still snowing a bit...ridiculous

yeah i just saw someone go by on skis on w olympic pl

I have just a wall of snow falling from the sky outside

now:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3226/3123859085_58ab278a8e_m.jpg

4 more inches tonight
skis, snowboards, sleds

I opened my window and immediately got a faceful of snow

aurora at 10:30 p.m.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/3123883329_9d27cdfc54.jpg

aurora and mercer
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/3123882491_44b848d09f.jpg

4" in Fremont, still snowing.

Tomorrow morning will be, um, really interesting.

oh my god, my lights just flickered

:( :( :(

damn

sending u good thoughts

esp keeps lights on btw

the unexpected beauty of dot traffic cams
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/sr167.jpg

Just got back from walk to the beach. So cool.

oh man I can't wait to go to golden gardens. If I can get back at all.

ok, 4-5" in Fremont and still gaining. Another wave started while was there.

The freezing rain brittle ice bark over the snow layer this morning made for a rather dynamic snow walk. "POW! POW! POW!" instead of "pttch pttch pttch"

has it ever snowed during a seahawks home game before?

It was a treat watching the fans trickle into our neighborhood today - usually they start around 9 am when the bars open, but today held off until after 11. People throwing snowballs around instead of footballs. I can't imagine sitting through a game today, but then I'm not a fan. Still snowing like it's never going to stop down here. No doubt it will be a ridiculous mess when the post-game traffic starts.

OK, my flickrstream

http://flickr.com/photos/8031083@N04/3125882661/

the "best" ones

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So, there was that freezing rain pre-dawn? It basically was like this ice Magic Shell over the snow. Or like an ice version of an M&M or Skittle coating. Crispy brittle and noisy when stomped on. I'm holding a piece of this "ice bark". The dark spots are my fingertips underneath the "bark"

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Flickr is so retarded when it comes to auto-rotating pics. Anyway, that says "Bad Ice!" at the bottom.

a skier on a cellphone just zoomed down our hill

"blah blah global warming blah blah" swish swish

so apparently another 4 inches by tomorrow morning.

I believe I will just hop on a bus on I-99 to work. If no buses run there, fuck it.

it's starting to feel like this might never end

At least half a foot here in Lynnwood. It hasn't stopped snowing since yesterday evening. Some kids in my apartment complex built an igloo. XD

It's still technically autumn here, guys.. well until tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the darkest day of the year, too. And the Monday before Christmas.

yeah, i'm officially tired of this, which is saying a lot coming from me.

Yeah, I think I'm reaching that breaking point.

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/lb1217cd20081216025038.jpg

isn't there supposed to be global WARMING????? lolololol

musicallyfish

greenwood tonight
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/IMG_0069.jpg

KOMO news video of people slippin' around. First one is in Lower QA on 5th Ave N and Roy?

http://www.komonews.com/home/video/36520054.html?video=pop&t=a

Let the cat out this afternoon, so she could "experience snow." Promply ran away and hid under neighbor's porch. Took the better part of two hours, chasing her (gently) from yard to yard to finally corral her (shivering) beneath a small, palm-like shrub, before we finally got her back indoors, where she promptly vanished beneath the bedding. Later on, I walked down to the PCC on Aurora to lay in supplies (beer, brussel sprouts, pasta, canned tomatoes). CRAZY WITH THE SNOW! People out on cross-country skis everywhere. Almost no cars, those that were out getting stuck at every traffic light. Ducks quacking around Greenlalke like it was no big deal. Have never seen this city look so beautiful, and am loving every minute of this.

Cat in less snowy circumstances:
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/DSC01500.jpg

The snow:
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/DSC01594.jpg

Snowy apple ballz:
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/DSC01592.jpg

Neighbor yard:
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/DSC01595.jpg

Christmas berries:
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/DSC01598.jpg

My yard:
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/DSC01606.jpg

Lotsa pix on the way to the store, too, but it's a new phone and I don't know how to computerize em. Ah well...

did anyone else try to go to seattle this weekend and fail miserably? i am on my way home because the earliest they could replace my cancelled flight was xmas day, cutting a 9-day trip in half. i'm wondering if the snow itself was serious or if it would have been manageable for snow-familiar cities and seattle just wasn't prepared to deal with the amount of snow

Lots of snow by just about any measure, but yeah, Midwestern or Northeastern cities would have handled it fine. Seattle just doesn't have the gear to manage heavy weather, and people here get so freaked out that basic services (such as public transportation) fall apart.

I heard Seatac ran out of de-icer - snow has never been this prolonged here, and temperatures haven't been this cold in almost 20 years. Xmas day is iffy as well, since we are supposed to get more snow on Wednesday night.

Great pix, contenderizer - sorry your cat freaked out!

Should a city be prepared for something this out of the ordinary? I don't think so.

I'm thinking about switching my flight from Wednesday (7am-ish) to Thursday...it's supposed to snow Tuesday night but Wednesday night is supposed to rain. I'm sure a bunch of people have the same idea...apparently Alaska's phone hold time is in the 2-3 hr range.