The Great Snowstorm of 2008! - Open Thread
Snow! The snow boots came out of the closet. The dogs get that once a year great snow walk. And …
The North Slope is pretty white and slick.
A few more photos on Flickr. We’ve seen a lot of people out taking photos this morning. Link to them in the comments and we’ll take a look. It’s so pretty out there.
How are you doing today?
14 comments
L luneray December 18, 2008
I work in Seattle and it’s been snowing heavily all morning. I take transit to work and I’m getting worried about making it home. Even the local Starbucks is closing at 1pm.
But the snow is very pretty. :)
M Marguerite December 18, 2008
I have been driving around downtown all morning with very little trouble. I just got back in to the office downtown coming from 25th & Yakima and it looks really beautiful and blizzardy out…
M Monica December 19, 2008
Aw yes, the once beautiful, now hazerdous snow storm. I don’t understand why the city won’t put salt down on it’s roads. That is what they should be doing instead of putting down chemicals. Salt works.
Anyways, so I’ve been down in my hometown Country home in Olympia where the snow hit first and worst. Here are some pictures.
I know it’s not Tacoma, but sometimes its good to get perspective. http://www.flickr.com/photos/33486388@N03/?saved=1
C Cromletch McHammer December 19, 2008
Global Warming? My Ass.
S Squid December 19, 2008
Yeah, I’m not sure why we have a problem with salt. They use mountains of it everywhere it snows and with little discernable environmental damage. Certainly we could use it the once every two years we get appreciable snowfall.
Our streets would be bare and wet today if salted. The way it is, some of them will be glare ice for the next week.
D Derek staff December 19, 2008
Just so you know … I walked from the North Slope / Stadium to downtown this morning. All the main roads are fine. The side roads are ice. The sidewalks are just like the side roads. And … don’t try to go up the steepest part o the downtown hills. I don’t know what it is about Dodge Caravans and those hills, but I watched three Caravans try to maneuver straight up the downtown hills only to slide back down. Silly caravans.
L Lesli December 19, 2008
All I have to say is that the fella and I took a few high speed tube rides down 11th street with all the neighborhood kids last night. There’s something to be said for frozen cheecks (both sets), wet mittens and the screams of delight as you’re tearing down a hill in the dark. Makes a girl happy for a little holiday snowstorm.
T Tanya December 22, 2008
Does anyone know what the total accumulation is (or how I can check it)? I’m sure this is a record for the 10 years I’ve been here.
My family in FL is dying to know. My apartment is shoveled and sheilded. I took a measure off my car, but I know that’s not all of it.
S Squid December 23, 2008
Tanya: The official ruler in my backyard said 10 inches before it started thawing. I haven’t seen this much snow here in 18 years and I was here for the 1990 storm (which didn’t actually bring that much snow to Tacoma-cold it was though).
J Jason | QZVX December 23, 2008
Seems like we used to get more snow, more often in winter when we were children in the 60s. 2 feet of snow in the backyard and snow for days at a time, starting as early as Thanksgiving and running into January or later. OK, someone tell me I am not just becoming senile. Maybe it really is global warming, but seems to me, Tacoma had more snowy weather in the “good ‘ol days”.
D dni December 23, 2008
Jason. I think you are recalling the snow storm in 1965 or 67, can’t remember the year exactly. But there were huge drifts. My brother and I dug tunnels through them in our back yard. It stuck around for quite awhile. The next storm that was bad, was in my teens (70’s), that dumped pretty good and lasted 4 or so days.
T Tanya December 24, 2008
I can’t say I’m sorry not to have seen that much snow! WoW! What a memory for you guys.
Thanks for the replies.
This is plenty for me. It is beautiful. I love it.
M Monica December 24, 2008
I even think any more than what we have right now would be annoying. I like it when snows for a day, is all pretty, you stay home watch the trees and go walking in it.
Right now its like a foot and half, roads are a mess, it’s half off the trees and you can no longer go anywhere without seeing snow banks. YUck.
S Squid December 24, 2008
Just imagine all the poor SOB’s who live east of the Rockies, where it starts like this in November and just gets worse and worse until March, piles and piles of snow, snow emergencies (where you have to move your car first to one side of the street for two days, wait for the plow to pass, then move to the plowed side). In the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, etc. 18 inches snowfall is followed invariably by brutal cold the likes of which we never ever see here, highs for the day below zero (air temp not wind chill) for sometimes 2 weeks at a time.
Davest might miss real winter, but not this transplant. I like being able to have a couple of days of it and being able to drive over to the Methow for a long weekend, but enough is enough for me.
I will say that living through it year in and year out makes you tough. Not always in a good way.