Random Stuff

A foot of snow! that’s how much snow I have here right now. It is still snowing, too. In fact, it has been snowing quite steadily since Thursday.

This is all quite surreal to me. I grew up with lots of snow. A dry, cold, powdery snow that stuck around all winter. In fact I took my drivers test in snow. But after living here for over a decade, I’ve gotten used to getting a day or two of snow. Snow that was reffered to as the “Seattle Snot”. Wet, slippery, and gone within a day or two. This snow is not the typical Seattle snow, though. It is dry, powdery, and cold. Very much like the snow where I grew up.

I find myself quite unprepared for it. My sidewalk really needs shovelling. I have no shovel. My car has no snow tires and has not moved in two days. I dare not move it because it will get stuck. Probably within ten feet of my house. Yesterday was running around in my girlfriend’s Jeep, taking time to spin a few donuts in a parking lot, and getting some holiday shopping done. But tomorrow when she’s at work, unless I want to walk, I have to stay put. This is the first winter in a long time that I haven’t had a 4×4 to drive. I think I need to change that.

But as unprared as I am, I still like this.

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