My brother Larry has been planning for sometime to fly to LA to pick up Grandma Doris, then drive up to St. George for Christmas . . . but, Mother Nature had other plans! The biggest snow storm to hit Seattle since 1861 has brought the city to a virtual standstill without public transportation or mail service. Most of Seattle is unable to get to work or to other essential destinations (like the grocery store). Larry, who is on vacation until January 5, had originally planned to fly out on Sunday afternoon, but upon realizing that was probably not going to happen, he rescheduled his flight for Tuesday morning . . .
at a cost for the change of $175! On Monday morning, the Seattle Airport was closed, leaving thousands of travelers stranded. Today Larry - in desperation - doned his heaviest coat and
most trustworthy shoes and headed down the very steep hill from his condo to the nearest grocery store - a trek of about 1.5 miles one way which took him more than an hour to get there and an hour back for bread, milk and eggs! We will certainly miss his humor and interesting conversation (just as long as you keep him off the subject of politics) around our Christmas dinner table and we hope his cute little red Crossfire will soon be thawed out! In the meantime, Larry has no sympathy for us in southern Utah who got dusted - not dumped on - last week!
My brother Larry has been planning for sometime to fly to LA to pick up Grandma Doris, then drive up to St. George for Christmas . . . but, Mother Nature had other plans! The biggest snow storm to hit Seattle since 1861 has brought the city to a virtual standstill without public transportation or mail service. Most of Seattle is unable to get to work or to other essential destinations (like the grocery store). Larry, who is on vacation until January 5, had originally planned to fly out on Sunday afternoon, but upon realizing that was probably not going to happen, he rescheduled his flight for Tuesday morning . . . at a cost for the change of $175! On Monday morning, the Seattle Airport was closed, leaving thousands of travelers stranded. Today Larry - in desperation - doned his heaviest coat and
most trustworthy shoes and headed down the very steep hill from his condo to the nearest grocery store - a trek of about 1.5 miles one way which took him more than an hour to get there and an hour back for bread, milk and eggs! We will certainly miss his humor and interesting conversation (just as long as you keep him off the subject of politics) around our Christmas dinner table and we hope his cute little red Crossfire will soon be thawed out! In the meantime, Larry has no sympathy for us in southern Utah who got dusted - not dumped on - last week!
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