Last winter we were lucky (in our opinion), we didn't get any snow in the lowlands. There was plenty of snow in the mountains, but as far as the general Seattle area, we had no accumulations. That being said, we had plenty of snow our past winter seasons, so it was a nice change.
Plus, Kristina's workplace is at the top of a great big hill that is never plowed, or treated in any way. And as far as the roads in general, since we live out in rural Woodinville, we are often the last to get roads plowed, if ever.
However, we woke up this morning, there was a decent amount of accumulation at our house. These pictures were taken when it wasn't quite done yet. In the end, it looked like we ended up with 2-3" of snow. The rain came in shortly afterwards and melted a lot of it. When it was all said and done, we had about 0.9" of precipitation in our rain gauge on the back deck.
This is a hot from the back door looking over the yard.
Our back door looking towards the pathway to the trail...you can see Indy footprints already in the snow. She doesn't at all mind the snow.
Looking at the sky, you could tell that more snow would be coming...
It also made for a slow morning. We had to let the cars warm up a bit and brush the snow off them. Lucky for us, there was no ice underneath and it was a pretty quick thaw.
Looking toward the mailbox in the cul de sac. The trees always looks so wintry when it snows. But you can tell it didn't snow too much because there are still pieces of grass poking through the snow.
By the time Kristina got home on Friday, a lot of it had melted into slush. We weren't sure that the weather would do, so she went ahead and shoveled the entire driveway and all of the walkways! What a wife! By the time we woke up Saturday morning, most of the snow was gone -- only a few piles of snow remained and they were melting.
