Amen.

Quoted: Common sense dictates that you have a plan for freakish emergencies, even those that happen only once every decade.
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In this case, three things:
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1. Use salt to melt ice when it risks crippling the city for days
2. Close off streets that are impassable with police and official sign barricades
3. Hire private contractors to help with the plowing efforts
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These measures will not cost hundreds of millions. They should not impact the environment to any significant degree if only used every decade or so.

Hmm, not too optimistic about my flight tomorrow morning. Keeping fingers crossed though.

Quoted: We're likely going to see more snow tonight, and when things warm up later this week, there's a good chance of urban flooding as rain and melting snow overwhelm clogged or frozen storm drains, according to Johnny Burg, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Seattle.

Just checked on my car after four days. And, the snow is coming down now harder than ever.

Pictures of people sledding down Denny Way & Bellevue using a variety of apparatus @ 12:30am

For those who don't live here, Denny is normally a relatively highly trafficked site.

This has been my experience this season so far, as well.

Quoted: The volume of snow makes the descent to the lake extremely difficult and Seattlest wasn’t interested in becoming another Snow Lake fatality. Normally hikers drop several hundred feet down to the shores, but this summer that won’t be reasonably safe for at least another month

Heard about this crazy pileup on the news. Amazing that no one was seriously injured.

Quoted: Conditions on I-90 east of North Bend included gusty winds, blowing snow and compact snow and ice on the highway when the big rig jackknifed and collided with the trooper's car, Merrill said.
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The trooper, who was unhurt, had been assisting a car that had rolled over about 15 minutes earlier at the same site, Merrill said. A truck towing a trailer came next, hitting the side of the tractor-trailer rig. Other vehicles soon followed, resulting in the 30-vehicle pileup, he said.

More info (with video) here: http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_011607WABsnow_i90closedSW.4772992b.html

Umm..the snow is coming down at a pretty good clip right now. There's an inch or two on my street.

Quoted: "The good news is we're going to see a drop off in the snow around 7 a.m. or 8 a.m. just about everywhere," said KING 5 meteorologist.

We went out to enjoy the snow and stumbled upon a huge snow ball fight in my neighborhood. What started out as fun became all out war! ;)

listening to this at the sis's place. by the same people who sing "stacy's mom" -- but don't judge them on that song.

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