People are crocheting beanies as fast as they can
Via clamboy – a long thread on Seattle and SOME INCHES OF SNOW OMIGOD.
I’ve never witnessed anything quite like Seattle grocery stores when locals are preparing to brave 4-5 inches of snow.
— Daniel Silvermint (@DSilvermint) February 8, 2019
Oh no. They’ve started looting. People running out of stores with armfuls of Yerba Mate tea.
— Daniel Silvermint (@DSilvermint) February 8, 2019
People are bartering monogrammed yoga mats for just a single slice of cauliflower pizza.
— Daniel Silvermint (@DSilvermint) February 8, 2019
I awoke to the sight of Dickensian orphans picking through my compost. I don’t even know where they found those flat caps. The snow is still 10 hours away. #SeattleSnowpocalypse #Snowmageddon
— Daniel Silvermint (@DSilvermint) February 8, 2019
The snow has started falling eight hours ahead of schedule. People are resorting to the politest cannibalism I’ve ever seen.
— Daniel Silvermint (@DSilvermint) February 8, 2019
They just ate Howard Schultz.
— Daniel Silvermint (@DSilvermint) February 8, 2019
People are crocheting beanies as fast as they can.
— Daniel Silvermint (@DSilvermint) February 8, 2019
It’s been snowing for an hour and a half, and the roads are now white. People are gathering on their roofs, but no rescue is coming.
— Daniel Silvermint (@DSilvermint) February 8, 2019
That’s only a small sample. Guy has a fertile brain!
Tsk. Sounds like a normal Saturday night round here.
It’s always nice to know that there are places that are worse at dealing with snow.
By the way, I hope you remembered to flip up your windshield wipers. And not having a car is no excuse—just go buy some and flip them anyway.
Thoughts and prayers! (and a few sniggers)
I’ve always had a little sympathy for o places that don’t get a lot of snow overreacting a bit. And, really, if you’ve no snow tires, and little experience driving in the stuff, it’s probably for the best people slow down a bit, even if it does double the commute time, and some of us a little more used to it do clench our teeth a bit at discovering we’re going to be hours in traffic because of a half centimetre that would hardly be mentioned by anyone where we learned to drive…
… still, yeah, Seattle. You _can_ take things too far.
I’ve spent a lot of time over the years explaining that places like Seattle seize up when there’s snow partly because a place that gets so little snow doesn’t invest in a lot of pricey snow-removal equipment. Which is true. But still, the scenes of devastation in the grocery stores did seem a tad overdone and more than a tad hilarious to me.
That’s a bit like my home town, which is coastal, flat and has a population of maybe 400,000. When I was growing up we used to get the odd snow flurry. I can only recall ever getting one decent dump * of snow. Now, despite a distinctly warming and dryer climate, our weather is getting more extreme. Hotter highs, heavier bursts of rain, more frequent dumps of (wet) ** snow. When it does snow, people panic about being trapped at work and drive (badly) home, even though the snow is sometimes melted by home-time. I’ve never seen a panicked rush to the supermarket though, which is just as well because our nearest stores are 2.5 and 4km away which is a decent walk carrying groceries.
* 1 x dump = 15-20cm of snow at most.
** I’ve seen powder here once and the next day it rained on it.
That’s the thing about Seattle – it’s very much not flat. Nice for sledding down hill for fun, not so nice for getting around.
I JUST WENT TO FRED MEYER AND THERE IS NO MORE INCENSE LEFT
Seriously, though, it is rather hilarious what people are stocking up on. I mean, we can all understand milk and baby food and whatnot, but come on, you don’t have to buy up all the shoes. I suspect that your current selection of shoes and/or boots will last until wednesday when the temps in the Puget Sound area will get up around 40ºF and the melt-off begins in earnest, my friends.