Critical Exponent

We have a dusting of snow today. Or, as Seattleites call it, Winter Blast 2008.

See, things here just come to a standstill at the first snowflake. The city is hilly, it doesn’t have many plows, and its denizens are not used to driving in such “extreme” conditions. The papers are all atwitter.

We just had two really bright flashes of lightning with really loud, cat-freakout thunder. Thunder-snowstorm?

I’ll be working from home, I guess. But first, I’m getting back in bed.

UPDATE: We now have quite a respectable amount of snow. Not a blizzard, by any means, but the accumulation is non-trivial. The weather phenomenon we experienced this morning, BTW, is called “thundersnow.”

Today after I work I went to a meeting at the library. There, a (surprisingly small) group of neighbors got together to meet with our state senator and talk about legislative priorities and issues on our mind. It was a good way to learn about issues in Olympia and across the state, and to provide feedback on our view of things.