Why Washingtonians are bad snow-drivers

Category: gardening among the rocks | Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:49 am

Some radio talk show guys were railing against how badly we Washingtonians drive in the snow. Apparently, we either go maddeningly slow or foolishly fast. Interesting thing, the people who were calling in to agree with him were comparing us with drivers in, say, Wisconsin or New York or someplace else that gets alot of snow. But that's just the issue! We don't have time to learn to be good snow drivers! The snow comes down in a big WHUMP, hangs around a day or two, then it's gone. And when it does show up, the vast majority of people who can avoid driving in it do so. So we never have to learn how to drive in it!
I guess we are in a really unusual climate here. Every Thanksgiving, I hear horror stories about people who have to drive here or back through the passes- Never gave it much thought, but yeah, the only way to get here from anywhere east of here is either through the mountain passes or go down to Oregon and catch I-5. I just hope my son stays on this side of the mountains when he moves away (IF he does. He gives us the puppydog eyes everytime we suggest selling this place)
It's been snowing lightly here all day, lovely floaty stuff. Since it's supposed to get down into the 20's F tonight, that'll all stick. Just hope the sanding trucks get out early! Tomorrow should be a good day to work on cards. I was really looking at the way snow sits on the branches today and realized my cards are all wrong. O well, in future they will be more accurate. Maybe the one I'm planning to post here will be a real Washington-ey one. Seems every "washington" painting I see has Mt Rainier in it, but I love my Black Hills better. So much more friendly looking than the big volcano poking up into the clouds, lol! Besides, great-grandaddy thought they were good enough to settle in when he came out west, so they are good enough for me, too!
O well, enough rambling for one night.

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pondlady wrote on Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:29 am:

You live in the finest part of the US. We vacation there as often as we can. Not nearly enough lately.

muddybob wrote on Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:38 am:

I'll have to take some pictures of that volcano that you deem unfriendly. I get to see it as I drive out each morning as long as it is not cloudy. It is so majestic that I could never tire of it. I used to ride in the Black Hills on my mare. Nice trails. We live in such a great area but I'm ready to go somewhere less populous.

muddy

reggaefan wrote on Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:28 am:

I have been to your state once in the easrly sixties I was in the Coos Bay, Coquille area of Oregon. P loved it theen but the plates and screws would probably revolt from the rain now, but it is beautiful. You ought to see La. drivers when it snows here once in a blue moon

glendann wrote on Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:13 am:

I can't drive in the white fluffy at all.I get stuck in ruts lol.I have drove and thrown Houston Chronicles on ice .Boy ,you should see those papers move Lol.
I like the Black Hills they are pretty never saw the others.

Gardenstew wrote on Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:13 am:

Speaking of snow don't miss this CP:
http://www.gardenstew.com/about3542.html

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jubabe296 wrote on Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:23 pm:

I never had to drive in snow! We used to joke when I lived in Baytown (about a 20 minute drive from Houston) throw an ice tray amount of ice on a bridge and watch the Houston drives start skidding out!!LOL!
I've seen the Black Hills and they are gorgeous!!

CritterPainter wrote on Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:31 pm:

I should've mentined, I mean the Washington black hills, not the ones in the dakotas, lol! Ours are a tad less famous! Muddy, I do love our mountains too, have hiked all over them and even spent a night in a snow cave high on Rainier, but I watched a show about how it will wipe out Seattle when it blows-yipe!