More Seattle Blizzard

Apparently this is why everyone freaks out when it snows in Seattle: although the amount of snow and ice are similar to what I am used to in North Carolina, it's the Seattle hills that make all of the difference.  So yesterday morning when we woke up and went walking around our neighborhood with the Johnson's, it was like walking through the movie "I am Legend."  There were abandoned cars everywhere, cars in yards, cars on the sidewalk, cars that were parked at one point on a hill that had slid from the ice down the hill and into other cars...it was chaos.  We heard on the news that the night T tried to get his family from the airport, the interstate was SO blocked by traffic that people slept in their cars on the interstate or abandoned them after they ran out of gas.  There was an overturned bus and 18-wheeler truck too.


Chaos.


This video is of a car on Monday night that we saw Tuesday morning.  It was literally right outside the front door of Nick and Michaela's apartment. 


This video is 6 minutes of a guy standing on his front porch, watching car after car, after bus, after ambulance slide past his house on the ice.  Seriously, it's insane. 


Here are a few photos from our day together yesterday:

 View from Kerry Park

 SUV on sidewalk.

 The Johnson clan at Kerry Park.

 Kite Hill at Gasworks Park.  People were wearing helmets while sledding.

That's hardcore.

 Drew and Mrs. J

 The scene at the top of kite hill.

 Pile of destroyed sledding implements.  Torn up trash can

lids, laundry baskets, cardboard.  Anything you can think of

to sled with, these people were trying to use.

Johnson family original atop Kite Hill.

So all of you that read this on the East Coast that are having close to 70 degree weather, you better be enjoying it.