Luckily, the office was not as nutty as they have been previously - the office has been closed and I'm on my second snow day. DH's office (IRS) tried opening but they closed at noon.
Walking is okay - still have my Yaktrax and they are the best 20$ I ever spent. The neighborhood businesses tend to be open when their employees are living nearby. I thanked the Safeway for being open. Saw two little girls looking under the Coinstar machine - one pulled out a quarter. Heh heh - good to see the habit being passed on.
Other than that, the usual soul searching - are we weenies in the snow, why are we weenies in the snow, could this be handled better, could this have been predicted better? Once upon a time I would have been among them. Now - yep I'm a weenie. I hated snow and ice when I lived in the midwest, and came to Seattle because I wouldn't get much of it. While I would prefer that Seattle wouldn't shut down in the snow, it does, and you can either b!tch about it or deal with it.
In other words,
So in that spirit - this is what I'm doing this afternoon...
January 19th, 2012 at 11:22 pm 1327015332
I was thinking of Yaktrax earlier today, as in "why didn't I buy them?"
January 19th, 2012 at 11:32 pm 1327015931
I like our snow days. I also had a cold/snowy childhood which makes this look like small potatoes, but snow days here bring a break from routine. Of course, we have power, heat, food and no financial worries from missing a day of work or two. It's a good time to break out the jigsaw puzzles.
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However..., not very hilly. (Although the streets and buildings along them would channel the wind and shoot it right up your back like a knife!) And by the time the blizzard of the century happened, you probably got a series of smaller storms so you got your winter driving skills down. Most of the time, we get our one winter storm, it melts and that's it. No November dress rehearsal.
The mystery with Seattle is that many drivers can drive perfectly well up to ski somewhere, drive safely up and out through one of several Cascade mountain passes (which can stay snowy until July) into eastern Washington and then manage to drive to Spokane and Idaho. In Seattle proper? Total driving menace.
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