Let It Snow!

No we did not have a white Christmas .... My last one of those was in Colorado!  Living in Washington State you might get a raining Christmas or a fog shrouded Christmas but never snow ...  Of course, back home in Basel-stadt, snow was the rule - even if it was just a tiny amount!

So when the weathermen all decided it would snow on New Year Eve, we all snorted, they are NEVER correct!  Of course if we did get the 1/2" they were predicting - it would make a mess of Seattle!  It is not like it snows at least once a year in Seattle, so people ought to be able to adjust ... but, heck, they panic when it rains around here!  And that is over one third of the days of the year!

So the new years came, no snow, no flakes.  How ever does one get a job where they are wrong 100% of the time and still retain a job?!?!?!?!?  I could easily do this bad of a job with no training at all!

I woke up at 3 AM to see just a dusting of snow.  I thought, "Huh, we just get that half of an inch after-all!".  I rose again at 6 AM to see an inch of snow.  When I got up at 10:00 to see a full 4 inches of snow!  Really?  This would be a disaster for the area!

But it was not until I went out for a drive, first drive with an artificial leg in the snow!, so cool! - that I realized that living at 600 feet above sea level put me in the snow zone - whereas the rest of the entire area is not!  So we are still snow bound and no one in the entire area even has a flake to look at!

Our snow plow slid into a 3' deep ditch!

Of course a tree had to come down due to the weight of the ice which preceded the snow - and 4,000 homes where now without power.  No biggie to me, our furnace went out on the 24th and we are still without a working heater ... sigh ...  Luckily I am Swiss Boy, able to stride across glaciers in my underwear and laugh at the less hearty!  But, it sure can be cold putting on that artificial leg first thing in the morning!

Nothing like ice under the snow!

Now, a week later, we are still snow bound.  I still drive to the store daily to get my daily walk in - sure not going to risk my leg on ice when I am only days away from surgery!  Not much traffic is moving anywhere, nor are there many people out walking around.  I think all of my neighbors froze to death!

Hope the pictures are to give you a few laughs ...