I hope everyone in the Seattle/Tacoma area is ready for it

[Comshaw]

Here comes our snow pack for the winter...

"The high resolution U.S. GFS forecast (blue line) is going for ALMOST 20 inches of snow by late Monday. Unbelievable. And here is the U.S. GFS snowfall forecast through 10 PM Sunday. 24 inches in Tacoma, 20 inches in Seattle. The mountains would probably be impassable if this forecast comes true."

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Comshaw

 

[Dribble]

And what makes it worse...none of you know how to drive in 2 inches of snow...let alone feet.

Buy a good shovel.

 

[Comshaw]

And what makes it worse...none of you know how to drive in 2 inches of snow...let alone feet.

Buy a good shovel.

You know I hear that all the time from people who move here from the midwest. And you know what? It's true because we rarely get snow so everyone is driving around on summer tires. But when we do get it, it dumps on us.

In 1996 we had 24" of snow, then it rained, then froze, then snowed again for a total of 38", then rained, and froze again and stayed frozen for a week. The only snowplows that could move the stuff were our ten-yard trucks, filled with sand with all ten tires chains up.
The fire department was borrowing snowmobiles for their paramedics to use. We had one snowdrift that slid down the mountainside onto a state highway and caused a drift 21' deep over the road.

All that happened locally. 30 miles to the east there was no snow at all. And the stuff that fell here was gone in three weeks because the Pineapple express came in and melted it all. Micro climes.



Comshaw

 

[HayleyLuvsSex]

Portland ready

 

[thør]

And what makes it worse...none of you know how to drive in 2 inches of snow...let alone feet.

Buy a good shovel.

A shovel won't help them drive. They should just stay home.

It's not like people don't know how to do that.

 

[PFWilly]

Here comes our snow pack for the winter...

"The high resolution U.S. GFS forecast (blue line) is going for ALMOST 20 inches of snow by late Monday. Unbelievable. And here is the U.S. GFS snowfall forecast through 10 PM Sunday. 24 inches in Tacoma, 20 inches in Seattle. The mountains would probably be impassable if this forecast comes true."

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Comshaw

We’re stocking up out here on the Kitsap Peninsula. But I did mount the snowplow and chains on my tractor...lol. But the snow isn’t predicted until late Wednesday, not on Monday. At least I’ll have Literotica to keep me warm.

 

[Comshaw]

A shovel won't help them drive. They should just stay home.

It's not like people don't know how to do that.

That's what I've told people for years. Stay home, sit in front of a warm fire, have a hot toddy and let the crews work. 3 or 4 days at the most (barring times like '96) and you'll be out and about. The snow 'round these parts rarely stays more than a couple of weeks. And the roads are always clear in 2-3 days, so why stress and go out if you don't have to?

There are those who have to be out in it though. When I worked for the city I was responsible for supporting the snowplow, police cars and fire department vehicles. I had to go in when called. There was only one time I couldn't make it when called. That was in '96. We were on 12-hour shifts and I was supposed to go to work at 5:00 AM. I had shoveled off the spot I parked our car (a 1987 Ford Taurus) so I wouldn't have problems in the morning. I didn't realize it had snowed all night when I got up to go to work. When I backed my car off the parking spot in front of the garage, because of a combination of the amount of snow and the construction of the Taurus I actually high centered on snow. I called in and when it got light spent the next 7 hours shoveling snow to get out to go to work.

Sometimes it gets really weird. When I was a kid I remember one February we had about 7 or 8" of snow (we lived back in the foothills at a 1,500' elevation). A couple of days later the Pineapple Express blew in. The temperature jumped from the high 20's to the low 70s in a matter of a couple of hours. I can remember standing in our field mid-calf deep in snow and watching it melt as the warm wind blew against my face. Almost all that snow was gone in 2 days.

Comshaw

 

[Comshaw]

https://i.imgur.com/1t9dKNJ.gif
Portland ready

Yep, that'll keep your mind off the snow for sure!

Comshaw