Snow in Kenmore!
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annathepiperFirst snow of the season just rolled in on us, folks, big time. It's coming down fast, hard flurries at this point, but the forecast is saying up to three inches. This should make the weekend interesting. If the Murk goes down, this'll be why.
Anybody else seeing snow yet? Seattle metro area snow roll call!
ETA 1:43pm: Wow, we are upgrading fast from flurry to genuine hard snow shower, and the flakes are falling fast and huge. Starting to stick to the patio just outside. This'll be fun.
ETA 1:52pm: Good steady snow shower now, with large, distinct flakes.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird is about to try to take pictures. We're getting light accumulation on the patio and roof, and I see a tiny, poor confused birdie on the patio. No doubt wondering "WTF?! WTF?! WTF?!" in its little finchy brain. Weather.com has Kenmore's temperature steadily dropping.
ETA 2:03pm: Accumulation now building up on the lawn, though not yet on the driveway and the street. I see slushy buildup on the patio, though.
ETA 2:27pm: Starting to stick on the patio and down on the street as well. If I look out the front window, there's an impressive blur of white out over the houses and treetops. And our next-door neighbor just inched very, very carefully down their snow-slick driveway, and kind of erratically too. I begin to doubt we'll be able to have our usual Saturday night pizza!
ETA 2:38pm: Smaller flakes now, but the shower is still steady. The temperature at our house has dropped below freezing, so this slushy buildup on our patio and down on the street ought to be freezing over any time now.
ETA 3:21pm: The street is white! And downtown Kenmore's at 32F now, we're more like 30F according to our thermometer. Snow's still coming down, though now in tiny, hard-blowing flakes.
ETA 3:45pm: And now we look like we've sputtered out, down to only a few occasional flakes, not even a real flurry. That was fun. ^_^
ETA 4:08pm: Whoops, they turned the snow back on! At it again.
Anybody else seeing snow yet? Seattle metro area snow roll call!
ETA 1:43pm: Wow, we are upgrading fast from flurry to genuine hard snow shower, and the flakes are falling fast and huge. Starting to stick to the patio just outside. This'll be fun.
ETA 1:52pm: Good steady snow shower now, with large, distinct flakes.
solarbird is about to try to take pictures. We're getting light accumulation on the patio and roof, and I see a tiny, poor confused birdie on the patio. No doubt wondering "WTF?! WTF?! WTF?!" in its little finchy brain. Weather.com has Kenmore's temperature steadily dropping.ETA 2:03pm: Accumulation now building up on the lawn, though not yet on the driveway and the street. I see slushy buildup on the patio, though.
ETA 2:27pm: Starting to stick on the patio and down on the street as well. If I look out the front window, there's an impressive blur of white out over the houses and treetops. And our next-door neighbor just inched very, very carefully down their snow-slick driveway, and kind of erratically too. I begin to doubt we'll be able to have our usual Saturday night pizza!
ETA 2:38pm: Smaller flakes now, but the shower is still steady. The temperature at our house has dropped below freezing, so this slushy buildup on our patio and down on the street ought to be freezing over any time now.
ETA 3:21pm: The street is white! And downtown Kenmore's at 32F now, we're more like 30F according to our thermometer. Snow's still coming down, though now in tiny, hard-blowing flakes.
ETA 3:45pm: And now we look like we've sputtered out, down to only a few occasional flakes, not even a real flurry. That was fun. ^_^
ETA 4:08pm: Whoops, they turned the snow back on! At it again.
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Date: 2007-12-02 01:50 am (UTC)And we walked TWENTY MILES to the schoolhouse
barefoot and uphill both ways
in blizzards in summer and winter
Back in the good old days!
-- Frank Hayes, via Smac
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Date: 2007-12-01 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-01 11:05 pm (UTC)The overall forecast is "up to 3 inches". It'll be interesting to see if we get that. There's also the possibility of more tomorrow!
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Date: 2007-12-01 10:29 pm (UTC)I don't think our usual Saturday night pizza driver is going to be able to get up here tonight.
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Date: 2007-12-01 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-01 10:38 pm (UTC)Another planet heard from
Date: 2007-12-01 11:04 pm (UTC)That snowfall is, presumably, all headed your way. The truckers here just now said better than a foot and a half down at sea-level in Campbell River.
Enjoy. We did agree to bulk water exports to the States, but nothing in the treaty says it can't be in solid form.
Ang.,
La Charbonneuse canadienne, who /likes/ snow.
Re: Another planet heard from
Date: 2007-12-01 11:08 pm (UTC)And hee, I like snow too!
Re: Another planet heard from
Date: 2007-12-01 11:12 pm (UTC)happily, merrily, dancing in snow
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Date: 2007-12-01 11:19 pm (UTC)Stoopid human tricks
Date: 2007-12-02 02:02 am (UTC)Got the mechanics who was stayed late at work (I had expected to be the second-last to leave, anyway, asked him for some chain. Then fired up the big IT loader (machine of doom and power), picked up a two-ton bucket of stoker coal, spread that behind my car for traction, then helped Ivan chain the loader to my car. He backed up with the loader, on the nice tractive coal lumps, I let the car drive gently backwards as it righted itself, and ended up out of the ditch. Total cost: one can of beer for Ivan (nicely chilled Kokanee from my purse -- one should always carry cold beer when it is snowing).
Then I got the shakes and started slipping and falling over in the snow. So (embarrassing admission here), accepted Elane's offer to drive us home; at least that guaranteed no more stupid tricks.
Highways 28 and 19 were both wrecking-lots on the hills and bridges, especially south of Dove Creek. Should be a one hour drive; took us two and three quarters -- we're just in now, safe and hearty, with tea-water on the stove.
65 cm of snow on the back deck, still falling fast. They say now that it will change to rain tomorrow night, and maybe have a big windstorm in the process. I guess we will find out if the battery backup for the house-power works okay. ^_^.
And of course now I am starting to feel very wobbly from yesterday's chemo, but that was expected, too, and is really a whole 'nuther story. Enjoy the solid white rain while it lasts.
More embarrassment: I rolled my old car **exactly** the same way at **exactly** the same place, on my first day working there, four winters ago, in the snow. That's why this qualifies as a gen-u-ine stoopid human trick.
Do not have to drive **anywhere** until Monday morning ^_^.
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Date: 2007-12-03 08:01 pm (UTC)Re: Another planet heard from
Date: 2007-12-02 01:52 am (UTC)nothing in the treaty says it can't be in solid form.
Snerk. :)
Re: Another planet heard from
Date: 2007-12-02 02:05 am (UTC)More, after tea-drinking, offline.
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Date: 2007-12-02 02:21 am (UTC)Tea, dammit!
Re: being a true hardware geek....
Date: 2007-12-02 03:50 am (UTC)The virtuous and steadfast munchkin has been duly rewarded with it being finest green tea, brought back on last Chinese adventure. Snow now (drum-roll) 71 cm and still falling. Record 24 hour snowfall here is 135 cm, and if we get that much the roof will probably cave in over my bedroom, so let us hope that does not happen...
Translation note: "go-to" in East Side Vancouverese equates to informal request for character vouch, not a request for locative or associative data.
The IT is a large Cat wheel-loader, with a four-tonne scoop bucket that has narsty raking fangs on its bottom. The stoker coal, well, it was just sitting there and it costs less than the quarry-rock we usually use for rocking-up the roads. Besides which, the snowmelt will run it back down into the ditch and into the tramp coal settling basin, so it isn't really being lost, just waylaid for a while.
I've always made a point of learning to use everything that's around a workplace; one never knows when one has to pitch in and help lift barges or tote bales. Have dismally-low upper body strength, but can hip-check things when needed, and can figure out a Diesel starting sequence without too much trouble.
Was actually tempted just to pick up the car with a couple of chain slings, but that would have damaged the bodywork. (Let's not even think of trying to lift it IN the bucket...)
Warmage under duvets, with flannel nightie and felted bed-socks, is now happening. Village is utterly quiet beneath the snow.
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Date: 2007-12-02 01:46 am (UTC)Albertson's parking lot is really clearing out now... but they've still got loads of milk...
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