SNOW in SEATTLE ((picture thread))

snowed again this night & morning A+

sorry about your car, jaq! maybe it will be better once it thaws out?

my coworker said something was frozen in her car and made a terrible noise

still no snow down here

Still in the shop today ;_;

I drove a zipcar up north yesterday - it was so cool to see the fluffy swirls of snow on the freeway!

It's really snowing up here!

not a flake in the city. it was kinda sunny out even

Seattle got effeciently shadowed by the Olympic Mtns. this morning.. which I didn't mind, since the commute wasn't pure hell, just slight hell. (Half of Ballard was on my bus, since their express bus didn't show up.)

I am prepared to walk home to Fremont from downtown after work though, if we do get snow. The buses will be delayed big time because they're only allowed to put chains when they get "the call" i.e. it's too late (I think it's union rules in question, but I could be wrong.)

I like how all the local news sites re: high 30s temperatures are all ITS A TRAP! (the temps are going to dip back down again this afternoon.. convergence zones u so crazy)

I hate it when the damn buses get delayed. Even the last few days I've seen delays just due to more people taking the bus, I guess. I don't have the luxury of walking home tonight.

my coworker said something was frozen in her car and made a terrible noise

Hahah. I had to read this a couple of times before I realized you meant something in the inner workings of the car rather than some random item in the back seat that froze and made a terrible noise!

Jaq you can borrow my car while I'm in Denver next week. (Barring a city debilitating 3rd round "snow event"/ Seatac running completely out of de-icer at any price, etc. that keeps me here)

Aw, you're a complete doll to offer! I just heard from Mr. Jaq, who has been following up w/ the mechanics - sounds like we will have it back in time for my interviews on Friday (!!!!!WOOT!!!!!), so I think it will be fine.

This morning:
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You can just see it falling in the upper left corner of this one:
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Obligatory train track shot for comparison:
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HOLY SHIT! This morning. HOLY SHIT!

Actually ok a bus,. The very lucky

On a bus

Yeah, Mr. Jaq's didn't show up, and there were two CT flexers jack-knifed across 2nd Ave when he was down at the stop. Things look like they're running okay on 4th Ave through downtown (though not so much on the steep cross streets!).

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1.Columbia tower
2.Jacknife truck on Columbia and 5th
3.Jacknife bendy bus on Columbia and 3rd
4.Dead crow in nest

Jaq, in the top photo, what is the building on the left that's all lit up with the huge windows? if that's the same street I'm thinking of, I used to walk down it from 5th and Jackson to get to the 2nd Ave Ext bus stop and I don't recognize it (although it's been a long time).

That said, you can't really recognize Fremont today. At least you can make out downtown clearly.

4.Dead crow in nest

Can this be made extra-spicy? And does it come with rice?

I'll find out if the retail food places are shut down today

Jaq, WONDERFUL pics!

Also, didn't notice the sparrow flying away in the Columbia Tower pic

Jaq, in the top photo, what is the building on the left that's all lit up with the huge windows?

That's the main fire department. Definitely on the way from 5th to the 2nd Ave Ext stop, but 2 blocks north of Jackson. The street in front of it is Washington.

Heh - I just noticed that reflection of the lamp I didn't turn off, floating eerily above the train tunnel in that first pic.

JoyGoat, how are you doing?

I heard Spokane got 17 inches in 24 hours... and now is at 24 inches and still falling?

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So much!

Aww, the snow is melting around portland now.

Maybe you will get some more before xmas - Santarchy on Saturday will be great this year if all this sticks around.

I'm not sure what Spokane got - I'm about an hour south - but we had a couple of inches on the stairs this morning, nothing too bad. It's crazy to see Seattle covered in snow though.

I grew up in Upper Michigan and basically it looks like pretty much every day between November and March there look outside now - white, grey, snowing just because it can, cold but not amazingly so. It's fun a couple times a year but I'm done with it already.

I'm in the Wallingford library. Like downtown and the near north, it's still snowing, but not bitterly cold, accumulating very slowly, up to about 3 or 4 inches where it ain't mashed down by cars n feet. Nice. Went to FUCKING work this FUCKING morning, stood at the bus stop for over an hour before finally catching a 16, but when in finally FUCKING got there, it was closed for the day. Locked up in ways I can't access, so there I was, on the street, in the snow. THANKS FOR THE FUCKING PHONE CALL, GUYS! Umm, nice to have that outta my system. Wish I had pix for y'all, but no goes. Hang tight and be strong.

I've never seen it snow for this long in the city center since I moved here. I have old skool Seattle co-workers that are saying this is the biggest snow hit since 1996.

(i moved here in 2001, so yeah, this is all making all feel cuddly and masnowchistic)

haha, Contenderizer, I walked down to be dissed by two filled 17 buses in a row. I briskly walked over to the Fremont Ave/Dexter Ave corner in hopes of 26 and 28 buses. I FINALLY got let onto one of them, and then the driver dissed everyone waiting after me. I was really lucky, considering I was planning to walk all the way to downtown from Fremont.

I'm DJing at Havana tonight if you want to escape the cold.. from 7pm to 9pm. Just Happy Hour Djing.. I will nonetheless be walking there from downtown, lol.

Took some more pics at lunchtime, when it was coming down hard (for Seattle, that is)

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Good shots, Mackro - I like the one with the old Federal building in the background.

I got a reprieve from busing it up to Mountlake Terrace today - they said if they really needed me there, they'd come get me. Mr. Jaq gave up on the SB 23 this morning after none showed up for 45 minutes. He's headed up to 8th and Blanchard now (hopefully on a tunnel bus and the SLUT) to get the car, which supposedly is fixed.

There was a deep quick snow on MLK day in either 2001 or 2002 - we were driving up to Vancouver BC and didn't think we'd be able to make it to the freeway from Madrona - iirc there was 3-4" that fell in about 2 hours. The brunt of it might have missed downtown though and just stuck near the lake. And we did get dumped on once in south Seattle 2 years ago, but that was only 2" or so.

OK, so did you guys hear the apparently humongous thundersnow strike this morning?

I slept through it, but apparently I can sleep through loud noise.

But while you unfortunately can't see it, it was caught live on King5 just in audio. It was loud enough such that it apparently felt like an earthquake in Capitol Hill/Central District area.

http://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=314479

i heard that, it woke me up

guess who walked 4 miles to work today

got good pix tho

snowlegz jergins

63rd and woodlawn out of order
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I've never seen it snow for this long in the city center since I moved here. I have old skool Seattle co-workers that are saying this is the biggest snow hit since 1996.

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There hasn't been as much snow at once as there was in 96, but this is the first time in my life where it has repeatedly snowed over a week-long period. Usually it just snows for one or two days and then melts away.

Got stuck waiting an extra half an hour for a bus from Everett to Lynnwood yesterday and then ended up having to hike it a couple miles from Lynwood Transit Center to my apt. : /

west from the aurora bridge
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As, my boo is in that pic! Fremont Bridge has nice sides like tyra

More weather on its way Saturday night and Sunday apparently, with high winds and up to 1/4" of ice.

we are fucking SCREWED

Welcome to my world, Seattle. muahah