Update on that blizzard. We remembered to have a large snowfall but forgot the wind. Oops. Sorry, we're new to this whole blizzard thing. Maybe we'll get it right before the ice caps melt. So the great blizzard of 2008 ended up being the large snow dump of 2008. For me, it was actually a lot of fun. And for most people around here.
Understanding Seattleites - we are an outdoorsy people to begin with, who are use to adjusting their outdoor sports because of adverse weather. But it's usually rain not snow. Golf games aren't canceled because of rain. Soccer players know how to slide in the mud. Campers never leave their blue tarps at home.
We adapt. And that is what we did with the snow.
Most of the pictures from the newspapers' websites and local blogs show adults playing. There were barely any shots of kids sledding or building a snowman. It was adults snowboarding down Queen Anne Avenue, a couch substituting for a sled to take down Denny Way, seeing if their dogs would be contenders for the Iditarod, building snowmen that would make Calvin & Hobbes proud. I saw it for myself, too. Hell, I was one of them!
More to come...
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Well, a week later, we've got the wind, but now it's combined with major rainfall. SW Washington seems to be bearing the brunt of it.
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