It makes me happy when I see my tax dollars at work. Unfortunately, tonight wasn’t one of those nights. I left work at 5:45PM and walked in the door at 10:00PM tonight !

Growing up in Ohio, you kind of learn how to drive in the snow. Out here, you get an inch or two of snow and everybody freaks out. Tonight, we got 3-4 inches in 1 hour which didn’t help. Add to it the fact that the city crews were obviously caught off guard (I didn’t see a single salt truck or snow plow through the entire ordeal).

After a handful of near accidents throughout Redmond, I managed to make it to Sammamish (in 1 1/2 hours). The problem is that there are two large hills and three miles between downtown Sammamish and home. I sat in traffic at the bottom of the hill for a half hour, watched a car burn (I kid you not), grabbed a coffee at Starbucks and then decided to catch part of the SeaHawks game at a local pub. Then I sat in traffic for another 45 minutes making it a grand total of 100 yards before turning around, parking at the Starbucks and hoofing it home. I saw dozens of cars off of the road, stuck in the middle of the road, lots of fender benders and standed motorists like myself and not a single city worker, police officer or fireman trying to take control of the situation. They were probably at home watching the SeaHawks game
I guess I’m lucky though. I got home safely and didn’t total the car in the process. After I got home, I took these shots of our house with all of the snow. Despite being a little annoyed, I have to admit that the snow put me in the holiday spirit!

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