1968 Revisited?

[Marc Martyn]

It is looking more and more like we are going to have a winter like 19688-[ What a year that was! 5' of undisturbed snow on the ground. The temperatures are staying low and the weather systems keep rolling in. We have snow forecast through the first part of next week.

Any of you remember that year?

[dilbert]

I don't remember the 60's
:colors:

Then again, I wasn't born yet. I'd be happy to get some more snow over on the west side of the mountains.

[zen leecher aka Bill W]

Lemmee break out my peace ring.

Oh... and blame it on global warming#-o

[michaelunbewust]

HEY MARC, MY DAD LIVES OVER ON WABASH, BY NORTHTOWN, AND, SAYS HE REMEMBERS. HE THOUGHT THE "ICE STORM" WAS WORSE, BUT, AS HE KEEPS DIGGING THE NEIGHBORS OUT OF THIER DRIVEWAYS, IM THINKING HIS VOTE IS ON THIS YEAR!ha! IVE BEEN WANTING TO GET OVER AND FISH THE WINTER LAKES, BUT, DONT WANT TO GET STUCK THERE! GOOD LUCK WITH IT ALL, AND, OUR PRAYERS ARE OUT THERE FOR ALL YOU FOLKS OVER THERE.

[crappie007]

Hey Marc I was born in 68'
I tell you what though, I'll remember this year!
Sore back from shoveling, running out of ice melt,
long white knuckle drives to and from work and District
81 schools closed 3 days in a row now!!!

[Gringo Pescador]

Ahhh yes - 1968 The 1st 1/2 of the year was great! I just relaxed and hung out, every once in awhile I would try to stretch my legs and arms or maybe get a little exercise. Then halfway through the year all h*** broke loose, the bright lights, the noise, the people staring and all talking funny. I couldn't sleep through the night, I couldn't go where I wanted, my whole world was turned upside down!

Gringo Pescador - born June 1968:compress:

[Marc Martyn]

:bigsmurf: I'll grab my cane now and hobble off to the Home...........

-25 degrees, 60" of snow, no school for 3 weeks, 3 T.V. channels, so we played a lot of Monopoly!

[panfisher]

i was in mn at that time, had to be that year or "69" that the town was snowed in after the bus's dropped us off at school. had so much snow that we had to stay at the homes of the town folk for three days before the roads were cleared enough to go home. <')//<

[A9]

I'd be happy to get some more snow over on the west side of the mountains.

It sure is nice, but their aren't many over here in the greater Seattle/Eastside area who know how to drive in the snow. If it starts snowing, not even sticking, people just flip out and traffic is just garbage...

[lskiles]

I was living in Spokane and I was 12 years old in 1968. I remember my brother and I shoveling snow all morning so the coal truck could deliver. The next day you could barley tell we shoveled.
We lived on the main road that went down to Division Street where the mall was out in the Valley, was that University? I do not remember, but I do remember they closed the street by our house because there was a huge hill and they could not keep it safe...we put it to good use with everything from cardboard boxes to sleds and tobogans.

[zen leecher aka Bill W]

I'd be happy to get some more snow over on the west side of the mountains.

It sure is nice, but their aren't many over here in the greater Seattle/Eastside area who know how to drive in the snow. If it starts snowing, not even sticking, people just flip out and traffic is just garbage...

Two comments:

Dilbert, wash your mouth out for wishing such a thing.

Sam, snow in western WA is different than snow in the colder parts of the country. Snow here is usually right around freezing temps, gets pounded flat by the traffic, freezes and turns to wet ice. Heck yeah, people have problems with driving in this cra...errr...ca-ca.

I "snow bird" when it snows and head home before the traffic gets bad. If it snows in the morning before work, my motto is "no day of work is worth a $500 auto deductible".

[EastsideRedneck]

I'd be happy to get some more snow over on the west side of the mountains.

It sure is nice, but their aren't many over here in the greater Seattle/Eastside area who know how to drive in the snow. If it starts snowing, not even sticking, people just flip out and traffic is just garbage...

Same happens when the sun shines, it rains, moon phase changes... People here simply can't drive. It is amazing how people on this side freak out anytime the weather changes.

[zen leecher aka Bill W]

losing that hour of light when we go back from daylight savings time bothers us also. Causes backups on I-405.

[A9]

I'd be happy to get some more snow over on the west side of the mountains.

It sure is nice, but their aren't many over here in the greater Seattle/Eastside area who know how to drive in the snow. If it starts snowing, not even sticking, people just flip out and traffic is just garbage...

Sam, snow in western WA is different than snow in the colder parts of the country. Snow here is usually right around freezing temps, gets pounded flat by the traffic, freezes and turns to wet ice. Heck yeah, people have problems with driving in this cra...errr...ca-ca.

I "snow bird" when it snows and head home before the traffic gets bad. If it snows in the morning before work, my motto is "no day of work is worth a $500 auto deductible".

I know that Puget Sound snow is different. I've driven a LOT in the snow and all over in different types of snow and on all sorts of road conditions, and in a handful of cars.

What I was saying is that usually when the people here flip out, is when it's 36 degrees and snowing and nothing is sticking on the on the road, which is warm from the air and car traffic)... Because that's the most common snow here. Traffic stops.

Occasionally, probably rarely, does the snow get pounded by traffic into wet ice. Even then, people still can't figure out how to drive in it....

It's usually not 25 and dumping with compact snow on the roads here. That I understand how people can stay off the roads and of course, I can't understand how some people DO go out on the roads with their cars...

People just flip out and can't seem to drive in the weather.

[iPodrodder]

Yeah. Couldn't agree more Sam. When it snowed in the early part of this month, I on the way home from an indoor baseball training center (near Eastgate kinda?) we had styrofoam snow and only 1" was on the ground. It had tons of traction just because that is how that type of snow is, but we were moving so slow that I got out of the car in the middle of the road and made a couple snowballs. Traffic was stacked for a mile in either direction, took forever to get out.

And getting onto the Plateau was misery. We stopped for Slushies at 7-11 on Eastlake Sammamish Parkway past the boat launch and drank them in the snow just waiting for traffic to clear up. The main road up the plateau by Microsoft was closed. Too steep or some kind of accident.

[Marc Martyn]

It really boils down to what people are used to and if the city has the right equipment . In Spokane, a lot of people are getting excited about the amount of snow that we currently have. In Fargo, the amount of snow that we have now is really a light winter. The temperatures are mild compared to the midwest. If they came to Spokane, they would ask what the fuss is about.

Spokane has changed it's snow removal plan from years past. They are relying more and more on the liquid de-icer and less on plowing. They have cut the budget so thin, that when we do have an above normal snow, they are not equipped for it.

When people go over to the coast from the east side of the state, they are bothered by all the rain. The people on the coast just throw on a rain jacket and go on with their daily activities.

[Fish Antics]

Marc's fun winter . . . .

[Marc Martyn]

Sun Glasses and all..............I Love It!!!!!!

[dilbert]

I think your pontoon boat is under the snow drift.

[Marc Martyn]

Would one of you guys be kind enough to dig me out for the season opener?:-s