The latest snowstorm had been un-officially dubbed Snowmaggedon 2019. Yep, that's how bad they said it was going to be! Cliff Mass, the local weather expert, warned the storm would come in Friday afternoon and have the possibility of dumping DOUBLE the amount of snow the storm earlier this week gave us. He said he was going to stock up and hunker down and guess what happened? Everyone else followed suit and the result was that every grocery store was stocked out. This was a pic of the shelves at Trader Joes on Thursday night. Crazy, right? The cashier told me she's worked at TJ's for 10 years and have never seen anything like it. The funny thing was that it wasn't busy when we were there so everyone had already beat us to the good stuff!
Since the storm wasn't supposed to arrive until after lunch and schools were not closed, I opted to go into work. BIG MISTAKE. The flakes started coming down right around 12:30 and they came down FAST. I left at 1pm to pick up Nora (school called early close at 2pm) and the traffic was so bad that I ended up having to park on the side of the road and walk about 15 minutes to get to the school in time! Luckily, Nora did not complain one bit about the wintery walk back to the car.
Brrrrr! cold walk to the car. Good thing she's bundled up!
The view of the baseball field at Tyee Middle School on our walk to the car.
I was supposed to pick up Evie after I got Nora, but I had to abandon that idea fast because there was no way I could get to her school by 1:40pm (they also called for early dismissal because of the snow). Scott was WFH and tried to get her but retreated back home after his car did a 360 slide going down one of our neighborhood streets. Thankfully he didn't hit anything but talk about scary! We ended up calling a parent friend to pick her up. Whew!
As for me, it took me another HOUR to drive the 4.6 miles home from Nora's school. The traffic was horrendous because there were so many cars that couldn't get up the steep hills into our neighborhood. I must've seen a dozen cars stalled out and another 20 parked to the side of the road and people just walking home. I even heard from a school parent that the school bus got stalled out on the main road up and they had to walk to get their kids off the bus!
So was it really Snowmaggedon? Well, we did get another dumping of snow but it's hard to say how much because it just added to the already accumulated snow. Here's what it looked like this morning:
View from our front door.
Where's my shoe??
The day was spent shoveling snow and Evie and Nora playing with the neighborhood kids. Evie was basically outside from about 9am to 6pm, with a quick lunch in between. She was exhausted tonight and couldn't keep her eyes open after dinner.
The girls made snow cookies and tried to "sell" them around the neighborhood.
Lots of folks out shoveling snow from their driveways
This was supposed to be just the first of a 1-2-3 punch of storms. #2 is coming late Sunday night. Wish us luck!
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