Ah, but the tradition is for someone to post a warning, so that if it does turn out to be a snopacalypse, they had the first post. It is also a way for us to laugh at those who panic in the face of a city paralyzed by an inch or three of snow, instead of just accepting it's Seattle, and enjoying the break from the drizzle.
Ah. Fair enough. A year ago I was living in the northeast, and I am still trying to figure out how seriously to take small amounts of snow--they'd be trivial in New York or Boston, but hills can make a difference.
Ah, then you are in for a treat. Most everybody I know from the Northeast laughed at Seattle snow, until they lived here. Treat inches in Seattle like feet in Boston. We don't get snow often enough to justify maintaining the fleet of plows and salt trucks that we need when we do have a major storm. Then we have the geography, which involves steep hills in just about every transportation corridor. To make it worse, we don't tend to get really cold when it snows, thanks to our Pacific marine climate. So what we get the most often is a light amount of wet snow that freezes over night. So next morning, instead of the snow you are used to back East that chains will bite into, we have glare ice. Add to that a bunch of transplants from snowy places who think they will have no problems because they are great snow drivers, back home, and you know why some many of us natives just stay home when it snows
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Relax, make some hot chocolate, and enjoy it while it lasts.
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That is all.
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