We have flakes

[susandennis]

Both kinds, actually - the human version and the falling from the sky version. We have more of the former, however than the latter.

I was sitting at my little desk working away when one of the former came by in her very best Chicken Little imitation saying "it's snowing! You'd might want to get back across the bridge while you still can!!"

So, in great excitement, I hop up and run to the nearest window... Ok, so maybe it's snowing on the other side of the building. Oh, no, wait, there's a flake. I see it now. Ooops. Gone.

I was standing in an empty office looking out the window and soon a crowd gathered. There was the Canadian who brought with her as much disdain as she could carry. There was the flake who, announced she was sending her team home. Actually, except for the Canadian and me, the rest in the gathering crowd told boring stories about the time they skidded in snow on their way to school one day or how they smashed up their car in the 80's once when it snowed.

These people really know how to kill a good snow buzz.

On the other hand, so far, at least, this is not even snow to even get a good buzz started... here's the traffic cam - it's positioned about where I get the bus every day. You can click on it to get to the website if you want to see the updates.

Comments

[proemial.livejournal.com]

*Musters his Canadian Disdain*

That ain't snow. That is sky dandruff. Call me when you can't see out the window.

:)

[susandennis]

Ha... Everybody wants to be a Canadian comedian...

(But, actually, it's trying now to work it's way up to sky dandruff level.

[melodysk.livejournal.com]

But it *is* snow Susan WOOHOO!

[susandennis]

Yes, yes, you are right and I am grateful. This is far more snow than we've seen yet this year. I'm happy.

Sounds familiar

[spiritgirl.livejournal.com]

Those flakes must be from Georgia. Hurry! Go buy bread and milk! Get home before you get snowbound! It could turn into a blizzard at any minute! A few years ago school was canceled on Friday before the snow actually came (which it never did) but it was rumored to be really bad. Yep, that's the way we live here in Georgia.

[ms-hackman.livejournal.com]

I just drove home over a road coated in 6 inches of slush/snow/freezing rain. Would they send anyone home for this? Sure -just get all your work done first.

It was the noisiest snow I ever heard

[vixter.livejournal.com]

down in SeaTac. Big wet flakes. I considered not driving to Bellevue, but then it all melted away and seemed about 40 degrees.

Want to get together for lunch tomorrow? I'm at 156th and 30th SE
with a car. If I'm not a snow wuss tomorrow.

[(Anonymous)]

Many, many years ago, I was living in the Bay area and pregnant. Pregnant for too long. As in my father kept calling, and, in despair, saying "You still home?"

Well, yes. So the doctor tried to induce labor. (Meds administered, "walk".)

As my husband and I tooled around the parking lot in San Jose, snowflakes fell. Drivers and pedestrians kept LOOKING UP!

Having come from Minnesota, where we had a plug for electric pre-warming installed on the car, we'd dealt with a bunch of California questions about the plug hanging off the car front. We finally ditched the plug, to avoid the need for even one more explanation.

So I guess I was a little jaundiced. I didn't think drivers/peds should be looking UP! The parking lot was not a safe place for a baby. Notatall.

Later, we got the news that - neither was the airport. When snow built up on runways, they tried to hose it off.

About a month later, my daughter made her presence known. No snow, but she's been doing it ever since

Quite well, actually.