Seattle snow day
 

We don't get this much around here and because I live just a few blocks up from the Puget Sound my place is the last to see it..

For reference.. this is a summer pic...

http://www.persiankitty.com/images/p...view062003.jpg

Here's a similar shot today..

http://www.persiankitty.com/images/p...snow2008_6.jpg

Here's the upper end of my water feature...

http://www.persiankitty.com/images/p...snow2008_3.jpg

and the middle..

http://www.persiankitty.com/images/p...snow2008_1.jpg

and the bottom.. (this area is 30 x 20 so the image from above is a bit misleading) Wonder what the trout are doing in there..

http://www.persiankitty.com/images/p...snow2008_4.jpg

Wowza. looks so awesome.

This was Marysville yesterday. We got more today. Sorry about the size.

http://www.justnico.com/images/0pyn1m1u748qgpm62olr.jpg

Such a beautiful city :thumbsup

Always liked your house PK :thumbsup

beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing!
I'm SO ENVIOUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

77 degrees here right now

I just can't wait for Christmas. I'll go to ski somewhere at the mountains

Very nice photos..

nice... looks cold... :)

Ow...that's a big diference!!

We wound up with 11" over here. I crashed the jeep yesterday trying to take the sis-in-law home

Hell of a storm is headed our way for Saturday - more snow and 50 mph winds gusting to 90 - ouch!

I'm off to go try and snag a generator - just in case the worse happens (as if smashing the jeep wasn't the worst already)!

Looking good Pk :)

Bama, my sis lives near Sears in Overlake - says it was pretty heavy the last few days..

We got a few inches here in Portland and Saturday is supposed to be real crazy..

Good luck and be safe.

I live a block off Greenlake... hoping it freezes over enough to go skating on - time for some true good ol' fashioned honest to goodness just like in the days of old pond hockey!:thumbsup

Hey, at least your pond isn't frozen solid. It would be if it were here.

Looks like pretty good snowball fight snow. :D

My parents live on Vancouver Island and are at sea level. They got 2 feet.... very rare.

I'll be there around midnight tonight. I told the hubby if my plane can't land... I'll convince the pilot to divert us to Maui and I'd mail him a postcard. :thumbsup

He told me to pack my cold weather clothes. I live in Georgia. I don't have cold weather clothes. It's 60 here right now...

Hope you are both ok and nothing too major to the car.

I made an amazing slide turn through an intersection last night... super lucky there were no oncoming cars because there was absolutely no way to stop the sliding since my last ditch effort at praying for mercy wasn't working either. I grew up back east and took my driving test in a blizzard so I actually do have some snow driving savvy; fortunately, that has come back to me like riding a bicycle.

Snow makes everything beautiful

Enjoy the snow :) We haven't had too much for a few weeks. Just -30 degrees!

Yeah, I'm down here in Kent. We never got rid of the ice/snow from last weekend then got hit with this storm. Christmas vacation has started early for the spawn as a result :(

I wish I could see it, it's beautiful there when it snows. I'd have to leave the next day though ...

Same deal up in Vancouver, BC.

That looks amazing!! I miss the snow

-10 this morning here ( really rare ).. few cold days ahead and then more snow this coming week .. nice for xmas .. but I live at the top of a pretty nasty hill .. not any fun when no one around here ever buys snow tires so we always just nurse through the 2 days of snow we get yearly .. ..this is gonna be a good one .. lots of snow for the kiddies ..

yesterday morning pic of my vehicle ... brrr


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That sucks about the jeep. Hope it wasn't bad bad.

We have about 5 inches here. I got out of the drive this morning and parked on the hill with everyone else. Put down some runway deicer to melt some areas so it's easier to get out. Didn't seem to have a problem with the big SUV and studded snow tires.

I still have my Sears generator from 2 years back, but I think it's headed to my parents in Ocean Shores one of these days. I have my big hefty wire in home standby generator now. Power goes out.. count to 10 and we have power again.

It snowed here for a couple of hours about a week+ ago, now its in the 70's hot and humid and I am back to flip flop shoes.

I want my cold weather back now dammit! what the hell? :1orglaugh

that snow looks so pretty.

Damage to the jeep was pretty nasty - I'm expecting 8-10K to fix it. Sucks too cause it's paid for but I spoke with the insurance folks today and it's a week in the shop and $500 deductible out of pocket to fix. No one was injured cept' my pride. I have no feeling on the bottom of my feet cause of the diabetes and think when I pressed down on the brake pedal to get my feel for the road, just pressed too hard. It sent us immediately sideways and if I would have had more room to work with would have recovered easily enough but it was 25 yards from a major intersection and we were on a downgrade. Given the scenario, it's either aim for the pole to stop us or hit the intersection and perhaps turn into something much worse.

I'll take the pole every time. I hit on the drivers side bumper so it'd spin us around rather than blunt force stop us and that's exactly what it did.

This morning I'm sitting in the office worried because now the Jeep is out of commission, a huge storm is approaching and all we have left now is my car but no tire chains - so if the winds knock out the power and with the expected accumulations, we'd be screwed with no way to get to a hotel or friends/family.

So, I see online that the nearest tire shop opens at 8 so I head out at 7 to get down there and get in line. The main road didn't look terrible but the side roads to get to the main road aren't plowed and I live on an upgrade out of the cul-de-sac. Hell or highwater (in this case snow), I've got to go get chains.

I actually make it out to the main roads ok and up to the tire shop which is operating full speed at 7:20 and they have my size chains so we slap em' on.

I'm feeling better now since we'd be able to get to somewhere that has power should the winds knock down the lines - but I'd really prefer having an emergency generator in case trees block the roads. If that were to happen, chains wouldn't be helpful.

I trudge off to 2 home depots - all sold out

I call Sears as I'm leaving the 2nd Home Depot to ask them if they have one in stock and the guy says they have 1 3600 watt generator left. I tell him my name and let him know that I'm 15 minutes away and to hold it for me - which he does.

I get to Sears and hand to God - there's a guy at the counter and 2 on the escalator ahead of me and come to find out - they were all there to buy a generator.

He tells the first guy in line that it's on hold for a customer and that if he wasn't there in 5 minutes he'd go ahead and sell it to the first guy in line. I tell him I'm the guy he was holding it for and I got it!

After another stop to get 2 - 5 gallon gas cans, a portable heater and 2 hot plates, filling up the car and 10 gallons of gas for the generator - I finish up my day around 3 in the afternoon.

Long day for sure with plenty of fret - but now, I'll have power to run lights, heat and hot plates to cook on :)

Plugging in the Christmas lights would just be showing off!