Screw Snowpocalypse, this! Is! SNOWMAGEDDON!!!

[katallison]

NWS: "A MAJOR WINTER STORM IS ON TAP THIS WEEKEND... "

Wunderground: "Heaviest snow will occur on the Kitsap peninsula along Hood Canal... Other locations within this area should get 5 to 12 inches of snow. ... If more precipitation occurs in the form of freezing rain than snow... then an ice storm would be possible with ice accumulations in excess of one-quarter inch. ... Ice storms are capable of causing power lines and large tree branches to snap and cause major travel disruptions."

NOAA: "Ongoing threat of sustained winds 50 to 60 mph with gusts to 75 mph or greater ... Structural damage, road closures, downed trees, and power lines ... "

Brad Colman, chief meteorologist for the Weather Service in Seattle: "This has the potential to be a notable and historical storm for some areas. ... This will be a major winter storm that will be life-threatening and disruptive to transportation and power for significant parts of Western Washington."

Oh, brother.

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Um...you are actually in the PNW right now and not still in Minnesota, right? Wow.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I am really, strenuously trying not to read the comments section of the various local papers, which are befouled with yahoos gloating about how this oughta shut up those goddam libruls and their goddam notions about global warming, by cracky.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

They are aware that these sorts of aggressively cold, snowy winters (complemented by aggressively hot, droughty summers) are in fact a demonstrated outgrowth of climate change, right? What did I just say, I asked right-wing yahoos to be aware of an actual scientific finding. My bad.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

DO NOT BE BLINDING US WITH SCIENCE LADY.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Good HEAVENS, Miss Sakamoto, YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL!

the hyperbole!

[gattagrigia.livejournal.com]

but wait! there's more!

Evening news casts: Those winds will be 50-75 MPH in the foothills, with possible gusts to 90! Kitsap Penninsula could see 6"-24" of snow! Prepare for power outages for a week!

And be very careful getting into a bus that has only one door - it might end up hanging over I-5.

(you've found some restrained predictions - there's much more dire out there, i'm just sayin')

Stay warm and dry if you can this weekend - or come up for the bash, we'll keep you warm and sloshed!

[transtempts.livejournal.com]

I am thrilled that I have to work tomorrow. *rolls eyes*

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

Holy Cow! It's snowing in Seattle and environs. The Apocalypse is nigh. But I think that you brought it with you, Missy.
Stay warm - I sure hope that you've got food, plenty of blankets and all that you need to weather the storm.

[lapillus]

You have retained your Minnesota coats, right?

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Right here we're having the sleetpocalypse, which is in many ways more disgusting than snow. But I wonder if you have some magical power over weather, that it followed you to the usually snowless Pacific Northwest? I mean, some people are guy magnets; maybe you're a snow magnet.

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

Snow was falling
Snow on snow
SNOW on SNOW.

Enjoy the siege.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Wait...if it's SNOWMAGEDDON!!! now, does that mean that Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck are going to land on the PNW with shovels (or worse!) and destroy the snow before it destroys age-old, totally sexist cultural bullshit in which the narrative rationale for Liv Tyler's character even existing is to manufacture conflict between the male characters? Oh, if ONLY the snow could wreak such societal havoc! "Structural damage, road closures, downed trees, and power lines" would be just the beginning.


I should probably go to bed now. I'm getting a bit loopy. Stay warm!

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Stay warm! Stay inside! Charge up all the stuff that might need charging!

I know you haven't been there very long -- maybe this will be a great way to get to know your neighbors better. People tend to come together in that "you and me against the world" way in situations like that.

Update when you can!

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

Holy shit.

Hunker down, charge up everything, check your food/water supply, and stay away from the windows.

(Here is a thing not to do. My stepson was cold the other day, so he put his socks in the microwave to warm them up. They caught on fire. Do not do that.)

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

The MN weather obviously missed you and like an old and determined cat, has followed you to your new home....

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

This is just NOT FAIR.

[vsee.livejournal.com]

Huh. I suppose they get a lot more freaked out where they all didn't get themselves teethed on the tire of a salt truck, but of course here, we get a couple big storms like that every winter. The high winds are an extra, deeply unpleasant twist of course. We just got a foot of snow here yesterday, and yeah, it snowed pretty damned hard, but I was really suprised how hysterical the local media became. People USED to just carry right on for anything under about 18 inches of snow in a day, unless there was an ice storm. And I've been sent to school where there an an active, ongoing ice storm and more than a quarter inch of ice on the ground. I feel like a total old codger saying this. Get off my lawn, you kids!

Take care of yourself. We can always send emergency supplies of sidewalk ice melt from the old country, out here.