Bracing ourselves

Cold out there.  We're hunkering down for the storm that is predicted to arrive later this afternoon or evening, supposedly with 3-8 inches of snow in the city.  For Seattle, that's really disabling.  The packed snow and ice from a couple days ago is still on the roads; it's not too bad (we did drive to the grocery store today) but there are scary places.  Don't even look at the picture of the charter bus that slid down a steep icy part of Capitol Hill, busted a guardrail, and almost went onto I-5.  Amazingly, no one was hurt.  They all climbed out the back windows.

The University Farmer's Market was up and running as usual this morning.  The meat vendors didn't need coolers... it was 25 degrees outside.  Jordan thought that was pretty funny.  "It's like we're already inside a refrigerator," he said.  Freezer, actually, but I got his point.  

The good news for the day is that the furlough from Maryland for my salary bracket is only two days.  We can live with that.