Seattle area is not a snowy place. When a snow fells several times per year, usually it doesn't stick for longer than one or two days. This year, we're having an anomalously long period of snow. In the last week, we went through all phases of a typical Russian winter. It started with a heavy December snowfall on Thursday, then there was a January low temperature and a sunshine on Friday and Saturday. A February blizzard followed. Now, we're going through the early spring snow melting. We and other people in my neighborhood got a full advantage of snow activities. We went sledding, cross country skiing, built lots of snowmen. I even saw downhill skiers and snowboarders. Traffic, of course, was the mess. The lack of snowplows in Seattle manifested itself in a fact that they closed the steep road near my neighborhood. Some people kept using it since it was the only way to get to their house. Instead of plowing it, they put a policeman giving out warnings and tickets for driving on that road.
Here are some photos which I took:
Sledding hill:
US Mail truck making it through the snow:
The UPS truck got stuck and was abandoned for the night.
An Igloo house which we built on our lawn.
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