As the first day of winter approached Seattle, it brought with it 3 pretty interesting snow storms. School has been cancelled for 4 days, and the roads are covered in snow. Perhaps you caught the Seahawks and Jets game on TV and saw the Chicago or New England type seen.
It's not so much the amount of snow that is causing all the mayhem, but more likely because they don't salt or sand any non-arterial roads and the fleet of plows and dusters is lacking. The city is then left with buses careening through barricades dangling over highways, and cars routinely sliding down one of the many hills in the city. Seattle doesn't have the reputation of being very hilly but outside SF, I don't know of a city with more of them.
Of course, no one cares about the negatives of snow days. So everyone is cross country skiing down the streets (it IS Seattle after all). They're pulling dogs and babies to the grocery store, and sledding on any hill they can find. Everyone talks on the street. Neighbors are laughing about digging out cars, and as bars close at night, spontaneous sledding runs and snow ball fights with 50 people are breaking out.
It's not often we get this type of winter blast and EVERYONE is taking advantage.
Anyway, here are some pictures from the Snowpocolypse.
http://picasaweb.google.com/mattyoder/Snowpocolypse2008#
UPDATE: You can see I am not the only one noticing people having fun in the streets:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/12/22/whose_streets_1
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