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HUGE F'N BLIZZARD
 by low bar on 1/14/2012 @ 3:41pm |
it was sunny the one minute....day after tomorrow the next. Where were you when the great snow blizzard of Saturday January 14 of 2012 happened? And...could the mayans have ever envisioned snow? |
 by JesseHillFan on 1/14/2012 @ 5:22pm | The Mayans might have forgotten the past of their ancestors crossing the Aleutian land bridge from Asia.Some of them stayed up North and became Eskimos and they know about snow. Me I'm staying at home.Did see some minor flurries not much though so far. |
 by Thorax O'Tool on 1/14/2012 @ 6:49pm | I'm in Everett right now and there is 80mm of this stuff. The town is shut down and cars are overturned all up and down I-5. |
 by Adam the Alien on 1/14/2012 @ 9:42pm | We've still only had the lightest of dustings in my neighborhood. Looks like frost in the few places it stuck. I'm a little disappointed. I figured being on top of the hill would guarantee snow, even if it didn't hit further down. |
 by Non Sequitur on 1/14/2012 @ 10:48pm | It's the water and the olympic rain shadow. Seriously, Tacoma is shaped like a triangle and two of those sides are the air conditioner/heater known as the Puget Sound. |
by Non Sequitur on 1/14/2012 @ 10:54pm | I bet the Mayans did envision snow. I bet they used mammoths as sled beasts of burden during the late eras of the ice ages. |
by JesseHillFan on 1/15/2012 @ 6:27am | O.K. now I see some good snow in Tacoma.It's coming down this early morning at about 6:30 in the morning Jan 15th,2012.Should see some interesting car crashes pretty soon too especially the ones going down steep hills. |
by low bar on 1/15/2012 @ 9:41am | Hahaha car crash spotting |
by JesseHillFan on 1/15/2012 @ 10:15am | A long time ago when I was just a renter.I lived downtown in an apartment.I had a good view.It was more entertaining watching car crashes going down hills than watching Cable TV during snowy/icy conditions.Well one does feel sorry for the owner/driver for his/her loss but it was still entertaining to watch.In conjunction I had a police scanning radio so that was fun to listen to also. Fortunately I never saw a pedestrian hit nor any injuries though.I wouldn't be entertained by that. |
 by fredo on 1/15/2012 @ 10:48am | I don't find the weather created accidents all that funny, but last year they did provide some amusing irony. Transit agencies advise people to use transit rather than use their cars when it's snowing but during last years storm the articulated buses spun out and blocked the interstate highway sytem for hours. |
by Thorax O'Tool on 1/15/2012 @ 11:25am | Remember the PT bus that flipped over by the UWT? |
by low bar on 1/15/2012 @ 12:36pm | Oh yes the great bus flip of 2011 AD / BCE. almost took out the science building and threw tacoma back from the middle ages into prehistoric times |
by JesseHillFan on 1/15/2012 @ 1:06pm | That would have been interesting to see in person.Tonight is when the trouble will start with refreezing and especially the impacted black ice and more snow. |
 by KevinFreitas on 1/15/2012 @ 4:26pm | South Seattle got a couple inches this afternoon but really not much to speak of down here Tacoma way. Tonight will be interesting indeed. Be careful out there everyone! Oh, and I was at said bus crash aftermath last year. Scary stuff:  www.kevinfreitas.net/blog/photos-snow-ta... |
 by jenyum on 1/15/2012 @ 8:10pm | Metro buses were a mess again, today. They stacked up stalled along the Spokane street exit and slid all over the place, according to the Twitterverse. Metro as usual complained that it's too difficult logistically to get the chains on the buses in a timely fashion. This has been the same story since I first moved to Seattle in 1995. I don't know what Pierce Transit's track record is like (other than the incident last year) but at least they don't use articulated buses in the snow. |
by fredo on 1/15/2012 @ 8:30pm | Seattle Transit Slogan:
"We'll Get You There" should be replaced with: "We'll Get You There or Maybe Not" |
by JesseHillFan on 1/15/2012 @ 10:23pm | Great Pics Kevin Thanks.By the way while listening to the radioreference online radio scanner at about 9:30 PM there was a car that crashed (went) into a house.Didn't pay attention to the location though wish I had.Anyway stay safe. |
by low bar on 1/15/2012 @ 10:44pm | most people don't have a few minutes, a floor jack and a set of studded tires i'm assuming. at least not the transit scientists. metro doesn't have time for putting on chains? wtf the wsdot law is studded tires can be used from nov 1 - to march 31. so on nov 1 transit puts them on...and march 31 they take them off. big ol' duh how many monkeys does it take to screw a cartwheeling bus down an icy hill? |
by KevinFreitas on 1/16/2012 @ 6:38am | Thx @JesseHillFan! Here are the pics he's referring to from about 10pm last night: i.feedtacoma.com/KevinFreitas/wintery-we... More to come on my walk in this AM. |
 by InvaderPet on 1/16/2012 @ 8:50am | It's not The Day After Tomorrow until we see The Statue of Liberty frozen in ice. Paging Jim Mallon... |
by low bar on 1/16/2012 @ 9:37pm | Well then that will be the one thing Tacomans had going for them: really good eye sight. Wish I could spot Libby across 8 states during an apocalyptic wash out |
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