Team Wendorf Report

We had a rare treat/annoyance a few weeks ago. We got quite a bit of snow in the Seattle area, which is uncommon. The conditions have to be just right; usually a snowstorm followed by dry, cold air. The snow has to stick and then not be followed by rain, which is usually the case when it snows in Seattle.

(for more info about Seattle weather check Steve Pool’s awesome weather resource at the humbly titled www.stevepool.com)

The annoyance was getting stuck on our own street. We live on a steep hill that crests about 20 yards south of us, and gets steeper for about a quarter mile to north of us. After the initial snow the roads were fine at the crest of our hill, but in front of our house and down the hill was a solid sheet of ice, about an inch thick. We were literally stuck for almost a week because our front wheel and rear wheel drive cars couldn’t make it the 20 yards to the crest, and going down hill to the next main street was a quarter mile bobsled run littered with cars in ditches left by the brave and idiotic.

The treat was the beauty of the snow, which was stunning the next day as the sun came out (which we hadn’t seen for quite a few months). We took the kids out in the snow, which they didn’t really know what to do with, but it was fun anyway. I shot a video of the snow and the kids using the dv camera we got for Christmas (thanks mom and dad). I then threw a short video together using the automatic movie creation tool in Windows movie maker which, as it turns out, is a nifty little program.

btw, I know that the intro to the video says ‘Snow Day 2006′, but in reality it was 2007, so shut up.

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