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Snow day. Are there two more exasperating words for parents in the English lingo?
In Seattle, where forecasters are hyperventilating over a mammoth snowstorm that could blanket the Emerald Municipality with an entire year’s worth of snow in a mere 36 hours, kids — and hence parents — are on disturb b train indefinitely.
The funny thing about snow in Seattle is how a little goes a want way. The totals that people are freaking out over are hardly impressive by Northeast standards. In an typically winter season, Seattle gets 5.9 inches of snow compared to New York New Zealand urban area’s 26.7 inches or Chicago’s 37.7 inches. But it’s precisely because Seattle’s not occupied to getting dumped on that the meteorologic hyperbole has escalated: the Northwest is getting “hammered”; its cities are “hunkered down.”
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In truth, the snow — which has now tapered off, though it may start up again — drifted down lazily, in perishable flakes that layered into powdery piles. There are 3 ½ inches on my back deck, seldom enough to rival the 320 inches that have fallen this season in Valdez, Alaska, and muscled its way through one firm’s front door. It’s the first time in years that Valdez has closed its schools because of snow, but who could recriminate them?
Source: TIME