Well, I am experiencing just a bit of guilt here. I’m in sunny and warm New Zealand banging away on my keyboard and my biggest problem at the moment is what time’s lunch.
Meanwhile, back home in the US in western Washington State, the snow has been falling steadily and making everyone’s lives difficult. It’s very hard to imagine when I look out and see the trees here stirring in the gentle breeze.
For the curious, here’s the weather news from home:
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Washington state snowed under, iced over
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — A storm that dumped as much as 2 feet of snow on some parts of Washington state turned freeways and city streets into icy gridlock and left thousands of people without power.
The snowfall capped off a month of heavy rain in Seattle — which was edging closer to a wettest-single-month record.
As of 10 p.m. Monday, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where official measurements are kept, had received 15.26 inches of precipitation — just .07 inches short of the 15.33 inches recorded in downtown Seattle in December 1933.
“It’s kind of ironic that after all that rain we could be breaking the record with snow,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Danny Mercer in Seattle. “It doesn’t happen this way very often.”
In central Washington, which received as much as 7 inches of snow, a Bridgeport woman and her two sons died in a two-vehicle crash near Orondo on Sunday evening.
Roads were a mess by the Monday evening commute, with cars sliding off Interstate 405.
“There’s cars in the ditches all up and down the road,” said Don Bowman, who drove 20 miles to buy tire chains after he was unable to find any still available in his hometown of Blaine.
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