The Official name is now The Arctic Blast. Oh, the weather outside is frightful and overnight we dropped from mid-40s to low 20s with a forecast of up to eight inches by tonight!
Yes, I realize that for you folks who live in mountainous places or frigid-weather-famous cities like Chicago and NYC, eight inches is just a flurry in the scheme of things. In the Pacific Northwest, at least in the Willamette Valley of Portland and the outlying smaller cities, two inches is cause for real excitement, so you can imagine what that means with a forecast of eight! The news weather folk around here get pretty amped up at even the prospect of heavy wind gusts in our normally mild (read: LOTS of rain) winter season.
The view from our windows on 12.13.08:
...and again on 12.14.08:
Photo #1 shows part of our front stairs (aka: "The Vertigo Stairs"--and that's in good weather!) and front sidewalk.
Photo #2 is the view from my kitchen window facing north.
Photo #3 is the remnants of our container garden on the deck.
What you don't see in these photos is the steadily falling snowflakes and the chilly wind gusts of up to 30 MPH. We're hunkered down for the duration of the storm. Our pantry is stocked, the kettle's on the stove and we've got movies to enjoy.
Stay warm, everyone!
