Messy Kweznuz

[akirlu]

A week of snow, and for Christmas, we get rain. Welcome to Seattle. Even with the steady drip, it will be a while before the snow really melts off, though, so it bodes to be a white, if squelchy, Christmas.

I'm spending another day at home since the University is closed for the third day running. I had vaguely planned to take these days before Christmas off anyway, but I hadn't expected my movements to be quite so circumscribed. Our street only got plowed yesterday, and Kent, like Seattle, doesn't salt. Then it promptly snowed on the plowed street anyway.

Still and all, it could be so much worse. We have presents and a tree, and I have a city ham in the oven. We have electricity and heat, spare logs and plenty of food, and if we really wanted to a walk down to the Hong Kong market or La Huerta groceries, we could, even during the times when driving without chains was unwise on these hills. (As it is, the other day we walked down to Maggie's on Meeker for breakfast. Support local businesses!) And above all, we are home and safe and not in an airport or otherwise trying to get somewhere. That's a lot to be thankful for. And through the miracles of cable, we got the Blackadder Christmas special rebroadcast last night. So that's all right.

Hope are things are well and warm with you lot.

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yikes. I've certainly seen them going by on the arterial two blocks from our house all along -- it's these steep side streets that took much longer.

I do get the sense that Portland is even more ill-prepared to deal with this stuff than Seattle. But at least Portland is flatter -- that helps.