It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like... Well, Not Like Thanksgiving In Seattle, Anyway

If you're reading this work or school right now (are you reading Seattlest in a tab behind a bunch of work lookin' stuff? Then you're at work. It's Monday for us too, and we had to double check ourselves) then the snowfall was ultimately unsuccessful. It was pretty --it's always nice to see the city painted in white-- but here we are. At work. Where we were Sunday night it just wasn't quite cold enough and we got a series of rain, rain with ice, ice with sleet, sleet, sleet with wet snow, wet snow, and rain. It looked safe for driving even at the worst, but when we tested that opinion by taking the car up the hill a dozen blocks we ended up in a blizzard. Isn't it cool when the snow level hovers between 0 and 200 feet?

Where Seattlest grew up the first snow is always a great event, but then it hangs around for weeks getting dirtier and icier and then it snows again and yet again and you have to shovel your car out a few times a week and you show up to work late and wet... It gets old. There's always the hope of an unplanned holiday, though, when the snow would be piled so high that no one could reasonably be expected to dig their way to the office and the huge drifts of it absorb all the city sounds as you wade your way to nowhere in particular. That's a successful snowfall. There's a Seattle version of that, which involves significantly less snow, but it didn't happen today. Ah, well, we're actually kind of glad to be back at work after four days away.

Image courtesy of Flickr user Brymo.