Snow woes in the mountains too

Just so you know I'm not the only one whining about the snow check this out!

Snoqualmie pass has been closed for days now because of huge snowfalls (more than 10 feet) and avalanches. More than 70 miles of I-90 are shut down, bringing cross state traffic to a halt over that route and backing up traffic for miles and miles. They opened it briefly the other day, had another avalanche that took out a couple of cars (no one hurt, thankfully) and had to shut it right back down.

Officials here say this is costing our economy more than $700,000 an hour because nothing is moving on either side of the state. Yikes! But they don't want to open it until it's safe either even though it is hurting the whole state economically. Better to lose the money than adding to our already high number of avalanche deaths this year.

Theses are official WSDOT photos of the pass and their work to try to clear it. Pretty amazing stuff.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot/

And their blog about this whole deal:

http://wsdotblog.blogspot.com/

On top of that one of our other passes, Stevens, has been closed down off and on for last two days, same problems there, loads of snow, bad conditions, wrecks and avalanches.

I've said it before, our winter this year is the worst we've seen in a long time and they are blaming it all on the La Niña weather pattern we are in this year. After two days of rain (finally!) they say we'll have snow again for the next three days. Yuk!