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Around The -Ists This Week
A day wasted, spent refreshing the same web page over and over. At least we weren't sitting in a big rig stuck up there waiting for the pass to re-open. That must be miserable. And they're still there. In fact, they might be spending the night:
Update I-90 Snoqualmie Pass remains closed until avalanche control work is complete. WSDOT crews continue working through heavy snow to make I-90 safe for travel. Best case scenario: If the snow lets up considerably, we will be able to clear all of the main avalanche areas and have I-90 open late tonight. Worst case scenario: If the snow falls as forecasters predict (20 inches in the next 24 hours), avalanche control efforts will delay the opening until sometime Wednesday morning.Did they say 20" in 24 hours? We'll be making an offering to the snowplow gods tonight, and hope to make it up to Alpental tomorrow (which has been effectively closed for two days now) for over 2 feet of untracked powder. Also, need we mention that anything remotely backcountry is a total deathtrap right now? Hopefully we need not.
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I got stuck overnight on the pass once. I was with my ex-girlfriend and our roommate. We'd eaten lunch, but skipped dinner because we thought we'd make it back to Seattle at a reasonable time.
The next ten hours were miserable. The three of us, crammed in my little car all night, with literally nothing but some M&Ms and a Snapple to share for sustenance. I woke up every half hour to start the car and warm us up.
At least they were cute, those girls.
Next morning, we raided the first Denny's we could find before heading home.
There was a comment on NPR this morning about how they had removed something equivalent to 130,000+ dumptruck loads full of snow from the roadway. That is a lot of damned snow.