Snow Day 2004
Jan. 6th, 2004 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo I just made it into work, and here's an email from my boss telling people that the weather looks pretty bad--and that anyone who wants to go home can do so. DUDE! I just GOT HERE!
It's snowing like crazy. Nothing had hit last night when I went to bed, which was disappointing--but when I woke up there was a blanket of snow visible on the roof next door, and when I actually got outside to get going, I discovered that it was in fact snowing. Little snowflakes, wet, the kind that pack really well. I had to walk to the bus stop; just the sight of snow coming down in the U-district made it a moral imperative. Everything was twilight-dark and muffled and beautiful.
The snow made for a great conversation-starter with passing strangers, too. I exchanged "isn't this great? I love it!" comments with one lady and a couple of older guys as I walked through the U-dub campus. I saw a guy on the Montlake bridge with a long-lensed camera snapping pictures of the snowy vista across the lake. And once I got to the bus stop, several other waiting riders conversed. One girl told me that she had spent an hour getting to the Montlake bus stop from Fremont and had seen another bus spin out on Brooklyn; her driver saw that and announced, "I don't think I'll go that way."
Weather.com's Doppler radar page as of this writing has a huge pile of gray and white all over Puget Sound, and the Winter Storm Warning in effect until 4:30pm our time is pretty much solid now on 3-6 inches by evening, with 4-8 in coastal areas.
It's snowing like crazy. Nothing had hit last night when I went to bed, which was disappointing--but when I woke up there was a blanket of snow visible on the roof next door, and when I actually got outside to get going, I discovered that it was in fact snowing. Little snowflakes, wet, the kind that pack really well. I had to walk to the bus stop; just the sight of snow coming down in the U-district made it a moral imperative. Everything was twilight-dark and muffled and beautiful.
The snow made for a great conversation-starter with passing strangers, too. I exchanged "isn't this great? I love it!" comments with one lady and a couple of older guys as I walked through the U-dub campus. I saw a guy on the Montlake bridge with a long-lensed camera snapping pictures of the snowy vista across the lake. And once I got to the bus stop, several other waiting riders conversed. One girl told me that she had spent an hour getting to the Montlake bus stop from Fremont and had seen another bus spin out on Brooklyn; her driver saw that and announced, "I don't think I'll go that way."
Weather.com's Doppler radar page as of this writing has a huge pile of gray and white all over Puget Sound, and the Winter Storm Warning in effect until 4:30pm our time is pretty much solid now on 3-6 inches by evening, with 4-8 in coastal areas.
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