The weather outside is frightful
When I got up this morning, I found an email in my in-box from Nick. Attached were two photos of fresh snow in Spokane, 300 miles straight east of us.
I drove to Redmond, and was inside Building 20 from 6:30AM to 5:30PM. When I stepped outside to leave, I was a bit surprised to see more snow on the ground — a full inch, and still falling hard — than I’ve seen since moving back to Seattle last year. Traffic was a mess, silly people were sliding all over, so I insisted we do the prudent thing and stop at Chili’s to wait out rush hour.
Then we drove home, only to find that our entire neighborhood was closed: these Snow Closure signs we’ve seen around were suddenly in place, blocking people from driving down the steep hills into Leschi. I found a way to sneak around them, but it wasn’t obvious. (I think Megan may be blogging about our closed neighborhood soon, by the way.)
Maybe if we’re lucky, we’ll be stuck here tomorrow. I deliberately parked in the driveway, just to increases the chances of that. Our driveway exits to a very steep street, so if there’s any more snow in the morning we probably should stay home all day. Safety first, you know.
… let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
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on November 30, 2006 at 7:05 am Tom wrote:
It’s coming our way now. The WGN Radio weather department has apparently been replaced by WGN Storm Central. Lordy. I can kind of see Seattle not being used to this, but Chicago gets dumped on every year. How is it that no one remembers? Is it that every year there are so many TV news producers fresh off the truck from L.A. that they turn it into big news?
on November 30, 2006 at 3:36 pm Tom wrote:
And by the way, that’s a beautiful picture. It looks like and indication of quiet, empty golf courses to me. You can’t get out this weekend, can you?
on November 30, 2006 at 3:36 pm Tom wrote:
er, AN indication. Thanks, muscle memory.
on November 30, 2006 at 5:13 pm Doug wrote:
Thank God somebody finally commented on the picture. I thought it had a certain tranquility to it my ownself.
As for golf this weekend, I’m on a Saturday morning flight to Paris.