SNOW in SEATTLE ((picture thread))

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Seattle received 2" of snow today, an incredible amount for our city. I've yet to see a plow anywhere in Belltown, although I did see a fair number of shop owners out with leaf blowers, trying to clear their sidewalks. Some pictures from my walk with puppy:

http://www.wendyk.org/snowstorm/birds.jpg

http://www.wendyk.org/snowstorm/newspapers.jpg

http://www.wendyk.org/snowstorm/toppot.jpg

http://www.wendyk.org/snowstorm/sheltie.jpg

http://www.wendyk.org/snowstorm/spaceneedle.jpg

http://www.wendyk.org/snowstorm/cinerama.jpg

http://www.wendyk.org/snowstorm/4thave.jpg

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, people out here can't drive in snow. Lots of hilly roads have orange traffic cones blocking them off.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

there are NO plows in this city! which is ridiculous, sort of--this happens every other year or so, you'd think they'd buy one fucking plow, y'know?

but yes it's gorgeous. (and we need to have a Top Pot miniFAP asap!)

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

also, take your pick: people out here can't drive, period/people out here can't function in snow.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the dog.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Portland is, like, completely shut down thanks to three or four inches of snow. Apparently there are no snow plows out here. It's quite amazing, there is a totally small amount of snow but everything is still on the streets.

And now I go home from work!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I just walked to Bed Bath & Beyond, it started flurrying again. BB&B was on the verge of closing "because of the snow" --it's less than 2" people!!!

My friend who moved here from Rochester is incredulous that flurries can take out the whole city. He was just standing out on our sidewalk in his slippers going "Geesh! Look at this, noone plowed"

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

lyra, check yr email

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man, those snow pictures are gorgeous. Absolutely stunning. I love to see pictures of snow. I'd actually prefer to see the real thing around here, but, you know, snowball's chance in hell, that sort of thing.

And your puppy is adorable!

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw, thank you Dee. I would pass along the compliment to puppy, but he already thinks he's the most handsome thing to ever walk the earth, and I don't want to swell his head more. ;)

Seattle online 911 log shows 13 motor vehicle accidents so far today:
http://www2.cityofseattle.net/fire/realTime911/getRecsForDatePub.asp?action=Today&incDate=&rad1=des

Heh, also: SDOT has set traffic signals on flash mode at hills, steeper grades and other key locations to reduce the need for traffic to come to a full stop. When approaching a flashing yellow signal, drivers should slow as they approach the intersection. These drivers are never going to learn how to brake in the snow now!

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

It was at least 4" by my apartment. We passed two abandoned articulated buses along the 358 route this evening.

― Pork Charles, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

those pics were great -- wish i could have been downtown or on the hill but i was 'stuck' in ballard today -- really rad to see so many people just walking around though.

and yes, people here can't drive in the snow -- that could have something to do with the fact that i think this is the third time i've seen it stick in the 5 years i've been here, and also that yes matos, people simply cannot drive in seattle in the first place...

― yetimike (McGonigal), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I took a whole bunch of pics in the Fremont area earlier today. I'll have to post them tomorrow night.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The funniest part was just everyone in Fremont giving up and therefore just throwing snowballs at driving cars. And the people in the cars getting out and throwing snowballs back. But yeah, I'm reeaally glad i worked from home today (as i requested yesterday anticipating this)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Fremont last summer vs. Fremont after snow yesterday

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

these are great. yous are the rules.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Well anyway, the above pics were yesterday. Today, the same scene is more slushy, dirty, and far far less charming.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Will they ever give that poor woman her espresso?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend who moved here from Rochester is incredulous that flurries can take out the whole city. He was just standing out on our sidewalk in his slippers going "Geesh! Look at this, noone plowed"

Lyra, your mate would be lost in Buffalo. A mate out there posted pics on his site last Winter just after a snowstorm, where you couldn't see the tops of the mailboxes....or the parked cars.

(BTW, Pretty puppy, too.)

And I still plan to visit Seattle after seeing all those pics! I'm feeling brave.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

well, it only snows once every other year here, so...

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The east coast and midwest people can laugh, but, see, most of the east coast and the midwest don't mostly live in the hills. That's what causes most of the problems in Seattle snow. You need to go uphill and downhill for almost everything in this town.

Well, still, the east coast and midwest people can still laugh, regardless I guess.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

DULUTH, MN, laughs at you.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan P OTM

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Lyra, our puppies should have a play-date! Does he like to play chase?

Snow yesterday was FABULOUS on the east side - much romping outside in the street where we live. Much snowball throwing. Much me falling on my ass.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I love them pics.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

great pics indeed, d.b.!

the snow yesterday was the worst in 8 years -- i was actually surprised that like no one plowed into my truck parked on a fairly major thoroughfare, that the buses mostly ran all day, etc.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF was up with the roads today being unplowed? Can't they borrow a plow or two? The ID was the worst, 3" of slush on all the roads. Also, I find it a bit amusing that all the recent weather forecasts have to do 10 minutes of explaining what freezing rain is before proceeding to announce we're getting some tonight.

We had a snowstorm digital photos comparison fest at work. Some people got great ones of cars skidding backwards down the roads around here, and there was one of a toyota smushed into the back of the Real Networks building by a taxi.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 8 January 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

Woohoo! 3" in south Seattle last night! Snow day today!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/354102559_0a9e4ac94f.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/354102757_79cf65c8f3.jpg

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

awwwwww

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

So sad the other pic links are busted :(

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

beautiful!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm the only one at work today. Weird 'cuz there isn't much snow at all on Cap Hill (where I live) or in Pioneer Square (where I work).

Beautiful day, though. I'm leaving early.

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

It was hailing and then fluffily snowing all over Beacon Hill and down Yesler to 23rd last night when we were heading to dinner at Thai Tom. Rain in the U District though.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

you guys seriously stay home because of 3"??
sorry to scoff but im just jealous

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

That's a dusting!

I haven't had to use a shovel for an entire calendar year -- I'm in the Midwest -- so wtf?

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry it is not flat here. 45 degree angle hill streets = icy sheets of death and destruction. The city buses aren't running down our way today.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Also, see above, no plows.

My prof, who lives up in Vancouver, WA, said it was a winter wonderland up there, but although it snowed a bit there was no sign of anything sticking around here -- except the occasional snow-covered car driving by, mysteriously out of place.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, I moved all those pictures I'd posted up there! a few from that snowstorm are still on my webserver, just moved.

4th ave

newspapers announcing the snow

Declan (my doggie) covered in snow

snowy Declan again

snowy Top Pot, the location of many Seattle FAPs over the years

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Also, it took my friend 45 minutes to even get out of a parking garage near Bel Square last night because the traffic was so crap. Insane.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, excellent! Declan is just so cute!!! We had a shot of Morrie, watching that snowfall on 1st Ave (we lived across from Caffe Minnie at the time) up on Flickr:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/168978795_420853c092.jpg

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I'm off work today, and drunk out of my mind.

TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE GOT THE REPUBLICAN TRASH WHERE WE WANT 'EM!!!!!!!!!
OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT
DEMS CONTROL THE POWER NOW! ESPECIALLY OF THE PURSE!!!! NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH THEY CAN'T MANAGE A FILIBUSTER!!!! FUCKERS!!!! OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT! 70% OF AMERICANS AGAINST THIS WAR NOW DO YOU HEAR ME!? It's the end BUSHIES GO HOME AND FUCK RIGHT OFF!!!!

OUT OF IRAQ NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW

― Okay, admit it, you play with cat toys (Bimble...), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

Were you marching with a group of protesters about 15 minutes ago? If so, I saw you from my window.

― lxy (lxy), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

No, not at all, you see I'm off work because of the snow in Seattle you see? Ah never mind. Must put on some music soon. Fuck it all.

― Okay, admit it, you play with cat toys (Bimble...), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you understand? We got Patty Murray on the Defense Senate committee thing now, and she never voted for the war! Unlike that bitch Hillary Clinton. I'm proud to live in Washington state, man.

― Okay, admit it, you play with cat toys (Bimble...), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

Well, they were marching in Seattle, obviously not at work, and there is snow where I am too. So....

Anyway, all y'all keep on doing the good work on the snow day.

And yes, put music on. Good. Yes.

― lxy (lxy), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

So just how big a dildo does Dubya's arse need eh? Just how big? Let me know. I'll do the honors. Horse's dick? eh? up the jacksie? HAHAHAHAH

xpost

hahahaha

― Okay, admit it, you play with cat toys (Bimble...), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

DUBYA THE DIPSHIT!!!
OF ARMAGEDDON!

― Okay, admit it, you play with cat toys (Bimble...), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

spank his arse! Whip in hand! Torturer of prisoners of war!!

― Okay, admit it, you play with cat toys (Bimble...), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

Little piece of shit child dubya!
It's all over. You're an embarssment to even your father, which is saying a lot. Goodbye Dubya. Goodbye forever.

― Okay, admit it, you play with cat toys (Bimble...), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

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remember the graupel from a couple of years ago? it just did that for a few minutes in georgetown! but now it's raining again.

bundle up, friends, it's gonna be cooooold!

― lxy, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 02:24 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://doescliffmassthinkitsgoingtosnow.com/

― anky, Friday, 20 December 2013 06:03 (twelve years ago)

Tuesday or gtfo

― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Friday, 20 December 2013 11:35 (twelve years ago)

1/2" on the ground and still coming down

― Jaq, Friday, 20 December 2013 14:18 (twelve years ago)

yay!!! uw is open but i'm not going to work. vacation starts early!

― lxy, Friday, 20 December 2013 14:54 (twelve years ago)

There's snow for real in Mt Baker

― The Reverend, Friday, 20 December 2013 18:40 (twelve years ago)

Trying to decide whether I should call in or go to work in West Seattle. I realllly need to replace my tires. They lose traction in the damn rain. I might just end up driving around Beacon Hill instead of over like I usually do.

― The Reverend, Friday, 20 December 2013 18:42 (twelve years ago)

I was fine until I got to 85th and 124th, where the left turn lane was a sheet of ice. There was enough slush off to the center to slow me down so I didn't rearend the giant pickup in front of me.

Graupel was coming down in Georgetown around 9:30!

― Jaq, Friday, 20 December 2013 19:29 (twelve years ago)

It just started coming down here in the ass-end of the state, supposed to get six inches

― joygoat, Friday, 20 December 2013 19:48 (twelve years ago)

thread needs pics yes
http://i39.tinypic.com/2mxmptt.jpg

― anky, Friday, 20 December 2013 19:49 (twelve years ago)

I just learned a new word. Thanks! I've seen graupel, but never knew it had its own name.

― Aimless, Friday, 20 December 2013 19:59 (twelve years ago)

Ok yay, I ended up being able to work from a site within walking distance instead.

― The Reverend, Friday, 20 December 2013 20:59 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, it was graupelmania around 9:30-10:00. Now, nothing in central Seattle, just wet. Mid- to upper-40s all next week. No white Xmas for sic.

― kate78, Friday, 20 December 2013 21:36 (twelve years ago)

no graupel for me today. i ended up going to work at 10:30 out of guilt for being at home when everyone else made it in, and i could hear the snow melting all around me.

nice picture, anky!

― lxy, Friday, 20 December 2013 23:04 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

it is beautiful. finally!

― friend to all animals (anky), Sunday, 9 February 2014 06:01 (twelve years ago)

so glad I got my tires replaced today

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Sunday, 9 February 2014 06:08 (twelve years ago)

saw this: so jealous

― (D1CK$) (sic), Sunday, 9 February 2014 09:58 (twelve years ago)

a giant snowball was made

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3743/12439966084_d9c5d18ac4.jpg

― lxy, Monday, 10 February 2014 18:20 (twelve years ago)

and then it was broken

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5540/12439487955_3bc58e7a7c.jpg

― lxy, Monday, 10 February 2014 18:21 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

― alomar lines, Sunday, 24 December 2017 23:41 (eight years ago)

Wild

― .oO (silby), Sunday, 24 December 2017 23:53 (eight years ago)

― JoeStork, Sunday, 24 December 2017 23:59 (eight years ago)

Thought for a minute I’d be an unwilling feature in a “bus rolls helplessly down Queen Anne hill” video

― JoeStork, Monday, 25 December 2017 01:17 (eight years ago)

RIP

― .oO (silby), Monday, 25 December 2017 01:39 (eight years ago)

ppl are welcome to steal photos from my twooter itt

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Monday, 25 December 2017 03:50 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

wow, right?

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Saturday, 24 February 2018 00:50 (eight years ago)

Such a nice walk through downtown just now

― byton frylock (alomar lines), Saturday, 24 February 2018 01:04 (eight years ago)

nine months pass...

lightning and thunder in Seattle!

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:18 (seven years ago)

two months pass...

Walked a couple miles to work this morning, hardly anyone’s here.

― JoeStork, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:57 (seven years ago)

IT BEGINS

― Norm’s Superego (silby), Friday, 8 February 2019 20:31 (seven years ago)

Finally in town for it. Sodo is a whiteout

― alomar lines, Friday, 8 February 2019 20:35 (seven years ago)

c'mon people

― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Saturday, 9 February 2019 08:05 (seven years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/jP0RG7X.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pWdcvCU.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/HQ4xjTZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Grd0jbu.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/S2bqBjk.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/H9yrJOI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Fm5VWoI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/qOVH7TH.jpg

― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Saturday, 9 February 2019 08:08 (seven years ago)

4ft snow dick in Cal Andersen pic.twitter.com/Ce9QiiCdQf
— Alex Garland (@AGarlandPhoto) February 9, 2019

― alomar lines, Saturday, 9 February 2019 20:30 (seven years ago)

Amie Borchert
‏ @AmieBorchert
4h4 hours ago
Replying to @ScottSKOMO

I was really hoping to avoid another snowstorm this week. My divorce is being finalized on Tuesday and I really don’t want that delayed and we’re going to Ohio Wednesday night for a hockey tournament so I really want to be able to leave.

― alomar lines, Saturday, 9 February 2019 22:19 (seven years ago)

That’s a lot

― Norm’s Superego (silby), Saturday, 9 February 2019 22:46 (seven years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/G7xgMTw.jpg

― alomar lines, Sunday, 10 February 2019 05:22 (seven years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/2OwUsGl.jpg

― alomar lines, Sunday, 10 February 2019 05:22 (seven years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/Ltx1FC0.jpg

― alomar lines, Sunday, 10 February 2019 05:23 (seven years ago)

10 hrs later and no-one has posted the 4ft snow vag in Cal Anderson?

― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Sunday, 10 February 2019 06:30 (seven years ago)

https://i.redd.it/8ab8424jjmf21.jpg

― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Sunday, 10 February 2019 21:12 (seven years ago)

I’m losing it y’all

― Norm’s Superego (silby), Monday, 11 February 2019 22:10 (seven years ago)

it’s good

― alomar lines, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:16 (seven years ago)

― alomar lines, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 05:21 (seven years ago)

ok why not try https://i.imgur.com/SKdYIAHl.jpg

― alomar lines, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 05:21 (seven years ago)

two years pass...

Still snowing!!

― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 13 February 2021 22:38 (five years ago)

Here in Portland we got hit with snow, sleet and freezing rain in alternating waves. There's a good third of an inch of ice on everything outside my window, but we've kept our electricity so far. Might be more ice coming tonight. I fucking hate ice storms.

― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Sunday, 14 February 2021 00:04 (five years ago)

Winter wonderland up here, sorry you got the shitty version :(

― Canon in Deez (silby), Sunday, 14 February 2021 00:05 (five years ago)

one year passes...

Wow!!

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 07:31 (three years ago)

The flakes are huge! Very snowy on the way back up the hill from downtown.

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 07:36 (three years ago)

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