HEY GUESS WHAT?

[channonyarrow]

Okay. I am SO FUCKING TIRED OF FUCKING SNOW that I cannot even use enough fucking caps. SERIOUSLY. I hate snow, I hate ice, and I have not been out of my fucking neighbourhood for a WEEK I am going CRAZY.

SO GUESS WHAT THE FORECAST IS?

That's right! More Christ-fucking snow. Also, hello 90 mph winds! And just so you know? 90 mph winds are a Category I HURRICANE.

In case that's not enough fun? Up to twelve inches of snow in the lowlands, and two feet in the foothills.

Oh, and the likelihood of power outages. AGAIN. I can't keep doing this, I really, really cannot.

Now. Guess where I live.

That's right! I live in an area that (1) gets lake-effect snow; (2) has insane hills on all sides, except for, you know, the sides that run into the water, and even there I have fucking hills; (3) has reportedly been characterised as the hardest-hit area in Metro Seattle in this last go-round. Now. I am approximately 260 feet above sea level; in my opinion, it should not be this way. But it is. Because God hates me.

So basically, I'm really depressed and really unhappy, and there is not a whole fuck of a lot I can do about any of this because I am TIRED of entertaining myself; I have been doing that for a week, with some success, and now I'm just out. I have nothing left. I am out of happy, and positivism is in very short supply.

And making EIGHTY cookies isn't going to fucking help, even though I'm going to do it, on the off-chance that I can go participate in this cookie exchange tomorrow, but I HAVE TO PACK AN OVERNIGHT BAG to do this because I may not make it home because the weather is going to start shitting on us again about the time that we are supposed to be coming home. Yay!

And also? Sorry to be selfish, but everyone who's getting whacked in the Midwest and the Northeast? Y'all have resources to deal with this. We don't. My understanding is that the City of Seattle has thirteen snowplows and deicing trucks - that is not enough. No one here can drive in snow, I refuse to drive in snow, and Metro Transit isn't able to hack this one, folks, given that their system is at least half shut down, and particularly the routes that run to West Seattle. So. I realise that right now unless you are in Phoenix it's bad all over but trust me when I say: I have it worse.

ETA: THIS is why I don't drive in snow. Because I never want to see a charter bus crashing through the guardrail above I5 and hanging there - barely while I'm driving, and I never, ever want to see a second one join it.

Also, it's 26 degrees out. WHY?

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[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

No, seriously, it's blowing into my house. Really, you can have some. We've gotten about, oh, two inches of EXTREMELY dry snow with teeny flakes in the last few hours. I am placing bets on when the power will go out.

That is the most awesome description of the Netherlands ever. One of the things I really envy Europe for is how easy it is to get to another country - I mean, yeah, there are parts of America that might as well BE other countries, like the South (and I ♥ it for that) but it just totally blew me away the time I went on holiday on the Continent and went through Brussels, France, and Spain, and would have gone on to Italy (I was also shooting for Morocco) if I'd done better planning. Not that I stayed anywhere really long, since I wound up only being gone a week, but it was nice to just get some teeny taste of what each of those places was like. Here, you go across country and the chances are good you can get the exact same food, language, and various things as you can at home, even without going to the chains.

[germankitty]

Thanks, but I think I'll pass. :) Luckily, we don't have to deal with power outages; most lines are underground here (especially in the cities), so they're rarely affected by weather conditions. (IIRC, the last couple of times whole areas was powerless was when a ship crashed into a bridge and somehow damaged a major power station or when sudden massive snowfalls, combined with an unexpected steep drop in temperatures, resulting in shock ice, broke older surface power lines that serviced rural areas and small towns.

I really like living pretty much in the center of Europe; I can't say that I've visited all eight countries we share borders with, but going abroad on vacation is pretty much SOP here. So far, I've either passed through or gone on vacation in 17 countries in Europe alone, plus Canada, the US, Egypt and Tunisia. :) But there's still all of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe to explore -- and of course Asia and Australia. When I'll have the time and money!