Seattle and Snow
Seattle is famous (or is it infamous?) for our weather. The average yearly rainfall in Seattle is about 36 inches, which, surprisingly is actually less than both New York City and Washington DC. However, when most people think of Seattle they imagine cool, drizzly days. And they wouldn’t be wrong.
This week we’ve experienced what I like to call Snow Panic. As a tremendously hilly city, ice and snow can turn us into one giant metropolitan hazard. Businesses have temporarily shut down, people are working from home, and the airport even closed for awhile this morning.
Although this week’s snowstorm was predicted to be “the worst blizzard in 30 years!”, it looks like we’ve gotten less snow than they originally expected.
I’m sure many of us were dreading something similar to the snowstorm that befell Seattle in December of 2008. People in from out of town were stranded for days, as the airport cancelled and postponed hundreds of flights.
If you’ve got five minutes to spare, check out this video someone took in November 2010, as cars repeatedly slid down an icy Capitol Hill street.
How are you surviving the great blizzard of 2012?
