Snow Wimps? This Seattle/Tacoma Winter Storm Aftermath is Real!

Well, today is Sunday and a lot of attention is being focused on today’s great NFL match ups where the Baltimore Ravens travel to New England to challenge the Patriots and the San Francisco Forty Niners will host the soaring New York Giants.  While I share in the intrigue of watching these games It’s very surreal to remember that here in our little corner of the United States we are still recovering from a huge snow and ice storm that has left thousands still without power!

A storm that caused a writer by the name of Kim Murphy from the Los Angeles Times to refer to residents here as “Snow Wimps”.  As many folks know, the entire Puget Sound area is synonymous with Seattle.  Often times when Seattle is referenced so is Tacoma, Everett and all the areas in between.  One could argue that Seattle is the reference name for all of Western Washington.  With that being said some areas received 2 feet of snow that was topped with an inch of solid ice!

While our power was out my wife and I were listening to KOMO AM 1000 on a battery powered radio to stay updated with school closures and other local news regarding power outages.  According to her interview with John Carlson on Komo AM 1000 Kim Murphy resides here in Seattle and writes for the LA Times.  She also mentioned to John Carlson that she had written the article prior to the ice storm which turned out to be fatal and cause several hundred thousand people to be without power (including my family) for several days.

In fact, as I am typing this thousands are without power still and have been for 4 days now.  Not to mention the temperatures have only briefly risen above 40 degrees!  Fortunately my power has been restored and we are thankful for the hard work of all the power crews from both Tacoma City Light and Puget Sound Energy as they work tirelessly to restore power to the residents of the Puget Sound area.  At one point KOMO AM 1000 was reporting that over 300,000 homes were without power and that as they were restoring customers more were losing power due to falling trees, branches and power lines which created more outages as they were working!

Okay, let’s wrap this up.  This blog is not intended to debate with the writer of “Snow Wimps” but rather to inform and remind people that this storm has not only been fatal but has left many people struggling to stay warm when temperatures are hovering only slightly above freezing.  While some sit without power they may be forced to listen to the sounds of trees falling around them and the flood warnings that have followed.

This storm was real and so is the aftermath.  Snow Wimps?  No, I think the roughly 4 million residents in the Puget Sound area handled it pretty well.  I mean let’s face it, what would the people of Los Angeles do with nearly 2 feet of snow covered with another inch of ice?  Better yet, what would they do with any snow?  I don’t think it went to well last time…

Now let’s hope for some great football games today and above all let’s hope that the rest of the families without power are restored soon and have a chance to get warmed up!  Go Ravens and Giants!

You can view Kim Murhpy’s article by following the link below.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2012/01/seattle-snow-storm.html