Snow in Seattle

It's our first winter in Seattle, and we weren't really sure what to expect. Yesterday, it started snowing. First, big greeting-card-style flakes. Then, smaller but more abundant flakes fell faster. It stuck to the pavement; the wind picked up.

And Seattle ground to a standstill. Multi-car pile-ups left autos nestled together in intersections like sheep. Interstate 5 literally became a parking lot -- there were so many accidents that people just started, in apocalyptic fashion, abandoning their cars on the freeway and walking. It took some over ten hours to get home.

How much snow caused all this ruckus? 3 inches.

Seattle's snow naivete does have an upside, though. People took to the streets, eager to enjoy the strange white stuff falling from the sky. Here's just one example, taken from out our front door at about 10 p.m. last night.

That's the spirit, Seattle.