Worth A Thousand Words

But I will add some anyways.  Again taken over the last couple of weeks but these were more about capturing a particular moment than anything else.

One of the first mornings with crazy snow and the bus drivers were still filled with hubris.  They thought they could make it up the hill where all of their colleagues had failed.  If you count you can see two stalled buses and the third trying to pass them:

The way that they moved a lot of the stalled buses was by running into them with a smaller truck to get them moving again which I thought was a little weird but what do I know:

Another bus related issue that apparently made CNN were the two buses that ran off the road in the middle of a random neighborhood over the highway.  I am not sure how these charter buses ended up on that road but they definitely could not easily navigate.  My favorite were all the passengers trying to make it to random places with their luggage.  You will have to look close for the buses.  This is the first situation in which I wanted a lot more length on my lens than I have.  Normally I would just walk down there but the cops were keeping everyone out:

Due to all the snow the garbage situation got pretty awful as it could not be picked up.  They finally got that resolved this weekend but it started to really stack up everywhere.  Here was right outside of Nordstrom's flagship store:

As they say though one man's garbage is another's treasure.  Here are a pile of sleds for Denny that look a lot like garbage to the untrained eye:

In addition to the garbage trucks not running, the delivery trucks were halted as well.  This meant no holiday cinnamon rolls for me and no milk for a lot of people (unless you wanted lactaid or soy):

Yachi and I also fell down quite a bit on the really snowy / icy sections of road which was funnier than I remember falling on hard ice being:

On an animal related front, this dog was really excited by the snow and dragged this chair along with him in his effort to really experience the weather:

Our cats were much more sanguine about the whole deal and decided to relax instead of heading out:

All in all it has been quite a crazy past couple of weeks that has been really enjoyable.  You can always find more pictures of the above mentioned times here.