More Snow

Seattle is stopped. We had a decent little snowfall, along with a hard freeze overnight. Seattle does not use salt on roads, ever, so the roads are mostly still frozen. Add in the tons of hills in this town, and you have a driver's worst nightmare.

Last night was the worst, as the snow started to fall about 4pm, right before the commute got heavy. The result was that some folks who usually have a 30 minute commute ended up stuck for five hours... or all night. My poor hubby-Eric got out of his evening job a couple of hours early... but still got home at about the same time he usually does. It took him over two hours to go the four miles (as the crow flies) from his job. Many of the spectators at the Monday Night Seahawks game didn't get home for many many hours... the news channels found multiple people this morning who still hadn't got home from the game.

Here are some pictures from my front porch. The sky is absolutely clear. Not a cloud in sight from here. The sun is shining, but there's no heat. It's not going to get above freezing today, and tomorrow doesn't look much better. I don't think I'm going to get my comic books on time this week (ack, and Aquaman is coming out!). Eric's newspaper hasn't been delivered yet, and I'm curious to see if the mail comes through. We may not have our weekly garbage pick-up tomorrow. Pretty much every school district in the area is closed. We're supposed to find out before noon if Eric's evening job is open tonight, but even if it is Eric isn't sure he wants to risk the drive after last night's commute (UPDATE: Nope, no work tonight for hubby-Eric. YAY!). The Department of Transportation is urging people to stay home.

I wonder what will happen tomorrow?

Update (12:30pm): Yay, it's melting! The streets up here are wet. The temp is still very cold (note to self: get an outside thermometer one of these days) but the sun is just enough to get some melting going and the very light traffic on our road is helping it along. I think the mail will come through ok, but hubby-Eric's newspaper never arrived. My bet is that schools will be open tomorrow in our district, even if it freezes overnight, with maybe a delay (two hour) and limited bus routes. That would mean Eric has to report to school on time... yuck. I'm not counting on getting my comics, though.