Our own Madame Hooky divines whether it's worth calling in sick Friday and heading for the slopes. She'll conjure your excuse and tell you where to go. Need I say much? Use whatever excuse works for you--many businesses and companies are just plain closed (most schools are)--so you might not even need one. Ice, power outage, the kids' day care is closed (you don't have kids? it should still work), my car's doors are frozen......

If you think you're going east for Thanksgiving, go now. We know they're trying to cram some actual work into next week at the office and there's a party you promised you'd attend this weekend, but I-90 is not going to be fully operational by the holiday so throw a bag of cat food on the floor and get in the car ASAP if you don't want to be stuck in Seattle Times's Worst Case......

The Pineapple Express isn’t a Sea-Tac to Honolulu flight, how ever much Seattlest might wish to be on said flight. The Pineapple Express is a weather event that is currently putting a damper on the Northwest’s January skiing (after an already terrible December). At a time when we're used to mountain storms dropping ungodly amounts of snow on the Cascades and Olympics we're instead experiencing lots and lots of rain as snow lines skyrocket and......