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?

Comments

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

They were probably all on their cellphones. I'm totally serious, I've totalled one car in snow, I'm not giving anyone a chance to help me fuck up a second one, so I'm not moving, but I have heard so many freakin' reports that people are talking on their phones and driving on ice that I really, really want to get a 2x4 and start patching up genetic damage.

I think my niece just texted me from the road, actually, and if I find out that she did, I am going to kill her. There's a time and a place for blase, and snow in Seattle is not it. How is it down there? You're getting the same things we are, basically, right?

[florahart]

Yeah, pretty much, though it melted today. But is now freezing again. At this point the weather reports have been so off kilter as far as which days it will be above or below freezing or with or without snowing I've concluded I ought to expect the weather will be somewhere between sub-arctic and sub-tropical, and either wet or dry. *nods*

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

You forgot between extremely windy and dead calm, though. But I know what you mean - it's been kind of like that here, and everyone's going "Oh, it'll be fine Saturday - except not! Wait, did we say Saturday? We meant Tuesday. And that snow that we promised you on Wednesday? Yeah, we meant Thursday. Pay no attention to the weather man behind the curtain."