My friend Louise sent me these pics of the present snow-induced chaos in the Seattle area.
Wait, wha? Isn’t it supposed to be raining?!!
She says the power is out in her neighborhood and won’t be restored until Saturday, at the earliest.
From the Daily Mail: Worst blizzard in nearly 30 years heads for Seattle as city faces DOUBLE its annual snowfall in just two days
It reminds me of the Seattle blizzard from 1998, which quickly turned into a heavy freeze. Cars and buses were abandoned in the middle of the streets, flights in and out of the airport were canceled and nearly the entire city shut down.
Seattle drivers are notoriously bad at dealing with snow
I trudged to the coffee shop where I worked at the time through knee-high snow and slush because, of course, Seattleites have to have their coffee, post-apocalypse or not. And even though everything around the shop was closed, we were open and serving customers from the surrounding neighborhood.
Water was pouring through the ceiling, but the espresso machine was on and that was all that mattered.
