RichVR
4072
I prefer to use a shovel.
LeeAbe
4073
What is wrong with you?? 😛
My family decided to make an excursion up the hill and see if the farmer’s market was open, and it was woohoo! We didn’t really get anything but some hot apple cider, that was just the thing. Then we stopped in for lunch at the local pub and headed back home. I took a photo at the top of the hill:
Doesn’t look that bad huh? And it’s not really except as others mentioned, Seattle is really hilly and we don’t have good options for clearing the streets. That road I’m standing next to is closed, there are signs at the base of the hill. Also kids sledding down at obviously unsafe speeds, I want to tell at them like the old man I am. Anyway time to go make a snowman!
We should get another inch this afternoon/evening.
The problem is Monday night. There’s still a lot of variables in play, so it could end up being rain, or a massive amount of snow.
LeeAbe
4076
Man, I am jealous of you guys who live in Seattle with your local farmers markets, pubs, and views like that.
stusser
4077
Assuming that’s a road under there, that looks terrible, like maybe they only plowed once then didn’t put down any salt, so it’ll all melt during the day to slush then freeze over into seriously dangerous ice.
LeeAbe
4078
That was interesting, thank you. Timing kind of sucks, it won’t be bad enough tonight to cancel work tomorrow, but there might be potential for a crappy commute home again.
It’s going to be a long couple of weeks around here.
West Seattle is home to one of the most amazing beer stores in America
The guy responsible sold it and started a new store about 5 minutes from me.
Speaking of the Super Deli Mart
Ha, no no, that’s not plowed. Only main streets get plowed around here. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen - the sun was out a bit earlier and gave us a bit of melt, now it’s all refreezing. Tomorrow will be nuts even if we don’t get more snow - I already got a call from Seattle Public Schools, there’s no school tomorrow. They don’t want to make it worse than it will be.
LeeAbe
4082
Have they been using sand anywhere in western WA? When I was kid growing up in Renton in the 80s, they would always sand our big hill ruining our sledding. This is the first real snow I have seen in WA since moving back here 4 years ago, but they haven’t been sanding the roads at all up here in Bothell/Everett (and barely even plowing from what I have seen).
stusser
4083
I guess sand is better than nothing, but you really need salt. When that slush freezes it’s going to be bad.
Seattle made a big fuss about not using salt during Snowmageddon 2008 to prevent salt runoff into the bodies of water. And then the city became totally immobalized; and a bus full of people slid down a hill, broke through a barrier, and the front part dangled over I5, threatening to totally go over.
The city switched to salt immediately. The mayor lost re-election later, and Snowmageddon was blamed.
The Northeast believes in a salt the earth policy.
Keeps people safe, kills all the fish.
LeeAbe
4086
And rots your car. I have never lived in a place that salts, thankfully. Although @Woolen_Horde said they do here in the NW now, but I haven’t seen it.
Nesrie
4087
Which is why a number of Classic Car collectors do not like getting cars form the East Coast.
We used to use some sort of chemical, now it’s a type of gravel I believe. Even when we don’t get snow, they put it out due to ice.
LeeAbe
4089
My work just called, closed tomorrow!
CraigM
4090
Well we haven’t gotten the snow in the Tualatin valley like Seattle, so I decided to find it. Turns out you go to 1000+ feet and all that rain was instead a good 6-8” of fresh powder
It was a fun climb, though the intensity of the snow as I descended from 3200” to 600” was… occasionally problematic.
