23-March-2009

The rapidly heating earth has caused yet another snow alert to be issued last night.  I’m happy to report that the weather experts were wrong (again) and this time it did not bring us a dawn over streets of white. Will this winter ever end?  Is it finally over, or will tomorrow bring out the snow plows and tire chains?

It has only been 4 days since I last saw snow, and 8 days since it really unloaded on us.  I was starting to think it really was Spring, for Western Washington.

A short 8 years ago I relocated the family here from sunny, smoggy, silly Kalifornia.  I knew to expect rain, and boy did we get it, pretty often.  But being on a coastal zone I made the assumption the weather would be mild.  For a few years that was the case.

Lately, at least over that last few years, the winters have become longer and longer.  This years winter season, although technically over, still seems hell-bent on sticking around.

Having grown up on the West Coast, almost entierely in California, when you see something like this, you have to wonder if it’s a harbringer of the end.

I hope we don’t freeze during Saturday’s ‘Earth Hour‘.  I plan to turn up my heaters, open all my windows, turn on all my lights and I’ve posted an ad on Craig’s List to hire some people to drive all my cars and bikes around in circles for the event.

Sadly they won’t let me post my ‘Earth Hour’ event on their website.  I want my globe to warm up! I’m tired of the snow!

UPDATE: 25-Mar-2009

Snow is back in the forecast again tonight, really!??!  Mountain passes are seeing heavy snowfall tonight.  And it’s spring.  Now I’m thinking it’s quite possible we’ll see snow on the first day of Summer too.   PLEASE… PLEASE.. let this Winter end!

Temperature: 32ºF / 0ºC

Restrictions:
Traction Tires Required, Chains required on Vehicles over 10,000 gross vehicle weight. Oversize Vehicles Prohibited.

Conditions & Weather:
Snow & slush on the roadway // Snowing

Updated: 12:11 AM, Mar 25, 2009
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