Snow Storm in Seattle !

Snow covered seattle (http://bobqat.com/Mazama/Seattle/032.jpg)

For Seattle, snow is something that December or even on a few occasions January brings along as a Christmas or new year gift :) ..but this year, it came as an unexpected thanksgiving gift instead ;) .. and as is always, anything unexpected is NOT welcome so easily ... If you stay in seattle, you know exactly what I am talking about .. A big snow storm in seattle !! In fact, Seattle has broken all the previous records of precipitation !!!

Freezing temperatures - well below zero ... heavy snowfall the first day, sunshine the second and again snowfall the third ... this particular combination is the worst as the first day's snow melts by the second day's sunshine but due to cold temperature, freezes and it becomes ice - and believe me ice is worse than snow ... A place like seattle which is normally considered to be guarded from snow by the snoqualmie mountains, is completely covered with snow ... its all white everywhere .. its completely offguard ... the doorkeepers have given up completely ...

you know whats worse ? Some of the places have lost electricity .. such cold weather (I swear to god, at one time yesterday the temperature was 18 degrees Farenheit thats well below zero in celcius) and on top of that no heat !!! man .. thats like the worst nightmare ever ! So many people have just recovered from the recent floods and now this calamity ... its just getting worse by the day ... in fact its snowing as I am writing this blog ... and I dont know in what state am I going to find my little babe Z tomorrow ... its out there alone fighting the snow all by herself ...

Kid with her snowman (http://clappstar.com/mt/past/295_9599snowman.jpg)

While the kids were enjoying their early 'snowman making time' as the schools were closed, some people had to spend nights waiting in the traffic on the roads ... for some people even that was not possible as their cars went out of control and got banged and had to be abandoned only to be towed the next day ! The offices / schools were closed and people who could stay at home stayed at home and worked from there - like me ! I am at home for the last two days working just like I would if I were in office or in fact more than that ... and believe me it sucks ! when you are in office, you want to be at home but now that I am at home, I want to go out ... why ? because there is nothing to do at home other than working ! its like home-imprisonment ! Especially because of the snow/ ice outside !! Well, at least I am thankful that I have electricity !! I dont know what I would do without that ...

Anyway, do you think this is due to the Global warming ... I mean seriously, havent you started hearing about such natural calamities coming at wrong times, seasons becoming erratic in nature, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis a lot lately ? Has it just started happening a lot or has it just started getting noticed a lot these days ? Are we heading towards the apocalypse ? Who has seen the future ? :) .. (how) can we change it ? ;)


more photos : http://www.komotv.com/weather/photos, http://www.kirotv.com/slideshow/weather/10421635/detail.html?qs=;s=4;w=320