Seattle Snow

So this week it has been snowing in Seattle! If we were still in SLC this wouldn't really be news, but here it literally shuts everything down. There are a few things that contribute to this shut down. First, it doesn't snow here very often so they don't have the number of snow plows needed to properly maintain the roads. Second, even with the snow plows, the streets here have the bumpy lines to indicated lanes rather than the reflective lines so plowing the streets becomes more difficult. And third, many people here don't have 4-wheel drive and have no idea how to drive in the snow. Luckily, we have 4-wheel drive so we were still able to get around and I even made it to work, unlike many of my co-workers. Actually one of my co-waorkers stayed at our place one night so that she could make it in (we live like 10-15 minutes from my work).

Well it snowed for several days and we didn't do anything to clear our balcony off, so tonight when we went looking out there we realized that there was a pile of snow. Here is a video off what we found: