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

[germankitty]

Aw, *hugs*

I hate snow myself -- IMO, it's nice to look at IF it is white, and pristine, and undisturbed ... and most of all regarded from inside a cozy, warm room. Also, the proper time for snow if it absolutely HAS to fall is from December 22 to January 6. Outside this window, let people who like snow go after it and leave the rest of us sane people alone!

(I hardly dare tell you that the weather forecast for the weekend predicts some rain at worst ... and rising temperatures, up to 11°C (~50F) tomorrow and Monday. *hides*)

[florahart]

I was watching footage of that earlier, and while bus through the guardrail is so not funny (bus full of teenagers, even less funny), the people driving under the thing on I-5 were kind of cracking me up with their total lack of reaction. I mean. Yeah, there was no real danger the bus would topple and land upside down across several lanes of freeway or anything, but from down there it might be a little hard to judge. But no one was really getting over to the left or anything, other than the blocked-off far right lane. ?!

[alasandalack.livejournal.com]

my sympathies. truly. because we're in the Midwest- and we aren't getting half as much snow as you are, which makes no sense whatsoever. and yes, we're used to this; we have resources coming out our ears. my PT forbade me to go outside, because (heaven forbid!) there's no one to shovel the sidewalk and driveway. this is a major catastrophe where i live. everything else is fine. meanwhile, i'm wondering how the fuck the rest of the country is surviving.

it's the apocalpyse. and it's cold.

shoveling misery

[camlewis.livejournal.com]

I have spent, and I'm not fucking exaggerating, 4.5 hours shoveling snow today. SO FUCKING FAR. I need to go outside and do more. And then do more when the avalanche comes off the roof and onto the driveway. All while a friend I haven't seen in almost ten years drives into town to see me.

I am on the verge of giving up. Completely.

[jacesan.livejournal.com]

It's been colder than usual in the SF Bay Area, but not nearly as miserable as it is elsewhere. We've had some showers, but that helps warm us up a bit.

As for shitty drivers...I watched an SUV rear-end another SUV last night. Then the car that was in front of me rear-ended the wreck because they were following too closely. I changed lanes and went around the mess because I know people drive like idiots, and tail-gating is just asking for trouble. People will stop for no apparent reason around here. Ooooh, shiny!

It wasn't even wet, and these knuckleheads still managed to fuck up each other's cars. o.O