The big freeze

First off, thanks to everyone that responded to our invite to take a look at the blog site. We appreciate you stopping by and leaving a comment. Like I said, we will try to post updates as much as we can. If you stop by and dont see any recent updates, post a comment to wake us up!!

After an evening of snow on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday have brought freezing temperatures. This morning it was like 19 degrees. The high today barely got above 32. This all means lots of ice on the roads. Most of the main streets are clear, but side streets are pretty slick. Maddie "skated" by with 2 straight days of no school. Today's annoucement of no school was kind of a bummer. For starters, it was another day with 2 ACTIVE girls at home for steph :-). Also, this meant that our game against Concordia Seattle was cancelled. (For those that dont know I have been helping with Hope's 7-8th grade basketball team. This is my 2nd year helping out....I will post more on this later as we get close to LEST)

Last tid bit I have to share is this latest Seahawks song. I know many of you are big Justin Timberlake fans :-) so this should give you a good chuckle. Seriously though, go hawks! Sunday at 10am vs DaBears.

The snow is here...finally.

Well. that was an interesting last 6 hours. It all started about 4:15. I was in my office that looks out over Elliot Bay and saw a really dark cloud to the Northwest. I said to a co-worker "I bet that is snow." By the time I cheked out the live dopler radar on king5.com, the co-worker said, "Yep...its snowing!" With that, I checked the metro bus schedule and the 54 was coming by at 4:30. I packed up quick and got on the bus, one of the last open seats. Thing were moving along pretty well, but I was noticing more and more snow on the side of the road, especially on the West Seattle bridge. Unfortunately we ran into some traffic on the final small hill before Alaska st on 35th, and got stuck. It was slick enough, that the bus couldnt get up the hill. I bailed on the bus and walked about 5 blocks to where Steph could pick me up. Fortunately, I made it home around 5:30. Not too bad. Talking with some co-workers, some had 2-3 hours commutes.

Since then, we watched it keep snowing and snowing and snowing...at least in our neighborhood. Strange thing is we talked with friends in the North part of WS and they hardly had any snow. All in all I think we have close to 3 inches of the white stuff. The adventure of the night was an evening walk down to the Morgan Junction Starbucks...White Chocolate Mochas for Mom and Dad, Hot Chocolate for Maddie and Kenzie. On the last block from home, we decided to end our evening right and build a snowman. It started up on Calif. ave and ended up in our front yard. I worked up a sweat rolling the giant base a block and half. Steph started on the middle section from the corner...meanwhile Maddie was pushing Kenzie in the stroller and "managing" the production. We finally made it to the front yard where the head was formed, and then we topped it off with our snowman kit.





















The question now is, will there be school tomorrow? This is all supposed to freeze and ice over for the next 3-4 days. Should be interesting. We'll let you know how it goes.

Frozen Precipitation

Just had to laugh at the 10 o'clock news and all the effort put in to report on even the smallest amount of "frozen precipitation" on the ground. Seriously, Jim Foreman showed a picture of what looked like salt on the ground. It is just funny how much time (including mine writing on this blog) is spent on talking about the weather. Our guess is that the snow wont amount to much, but the cold will. That means ice and some tough driving. Tune in later tonight for the latest...Back to you Jim. :-)

Winter Storm Warning

With our third post, I am rethinking the name our blog to be "Seattle Sports and Weather"..haha. It seems like that is where all the news is. The latest is the prediction of a big wind and rain storm that will turn into snow as the cold air moves in. It is always exciting to hear the DOT talk about getting out 2 snowplows ready for work...just kidding. I will never forget the winter about 10 years ago, where it was discovered that entire city only owned a hanfull of working plows. As for the sports reference...watched bits and pieces of the BCS championship game tonight...ho hum...Nothing will compare to that Boise State game last week. I think that was the best game I have every watched. They deserve a part of the national title.