As you've probably heard - or are experiencing if you live around here - the Puget Sound Area has hung out a big "Closed Due to Weather" sign. Seattle, specifically, just cannot deal with snow, much less ice. Too many hills, many very steep, too few snow plows for such rare weather and buses that create their own havoc (rear wheel monsters that are so long they're hinged in the middle - when they begin to slide, they jackknife and not only get stuck but block the street!) You can't drive - the natives do not know how to handle it and are a danger to everyone - and you can't get around on the bus - so the city simply goes into hybernation. Broken trees have taken power lines down, the airport was closed this morning. Higher temperatures have been held off and it is still snowing lightly on the day it was supposed to warm up, rain and melt this all away.
This was how it looked from Fran's front door yesterday morning:
Then, here's a picture of her neighbor's house across the street at 0-dark thirty on Thursday. See the reflection of the front door in the ice in the yard? This happens in Kansas City or Minneapolis, sure, but not very often in Seattle!
Here's shop dog Abbey peaking from JB's front porch mid-morning Thurs.:
Not only has the shop been left dark yesterday and today, but tomorrow's signing with Charlie Newton has been called off. His airline cancelled his flight into Seattle a day in advance. That tells you something about what the airline thinks is going on!
But we're not there to answer the phone or reply to every e-mail. Some of this stuff - blogging, Facebooking, tweetering - we can do from our homes. But we can't do it all.
So don't panic if we haven't returned phone messages or haven't answered your e-mails. We will when we can return to work. We hope that will be soon. Everyone in the city is going a little buggy.
Us included!
~the Crew
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