Shivering in Seattle
AdventureMan isn’t sure he wants to settle in Seattle. He promised me a long time ago that since I had been such a good wife, following him all around the world, we could settle where I wanted, he didn’t care.
You know how promises like that are . . . as soon as I could, I quickly sold our Tampa Bay area house and bought a house in Seattle. π Even with the dramatic fall in house prices, our house is still worth more than twice what we paid for it. House prices are not slipping fast in Seattle. The market is slow, but the prices are holding at relatively high levels.
When we go to Seattle, AdventureMan shivers, and talks endlessly about Pensacola. He makes jokes about Seattle’s “two days of summer” and he wears caps that cover his ears. I know he will be a good sport about living in Seattle, but his heart is in the South.
His heart is one of the reasons I want to live in Seattle. In his little town in the South, most people his age are suffering seriously from heart disease and diabetes. The food is SO good in the South – but the major food groups are fat and sugar. We both love seafood, but I am not so sure it does us that much good when it is all deep-fried. Fortunately for me, there are usually also grilled grouper sandwiches, grilled tuna and blackened swordfish, etc. but when give the choice – AdventureMan will usually go for the deep-fried option. π¦
Today, however, he has every right to be cold. Seattle is shivering. This is not my photo, it was sent in to the Seattle Times, and I like it because it has the snow and the Space Needle:
The streets are covered with ice, and people are afraid of more snow is coming, with high winds. When that happens, trees fall on the electrical lines, many of which are still all above ground (ruining the views!) and leaving people without heat or electricity for days.
AdventureMan yearns for the relative heat and sunshine of Kuwait. See you soon!
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Wow thats a shocking winter. I remember the days of 90+ days of rain. Once he survives a winter there he will adjust to the area.
My friend,we are almost sub arctic today! Fortunately we only get a couple of days of this a year.
Nibaq – I thought so too. Somehow, almost every time he visits Seattle, it snows. One time, it was a couple feet of snow, and we lost electricity for three days!
Momcat – holy smokes! Do you have heat? Electricity? Got your fireplace roaring?
That looks like the inside of a freezer.
I thought London was cold last week at a frosty -5 but this is serious. Have plenty of soup.
I haven’t yet been to Seattle. My parents loved it.
I love Seattle, too, Bu Yousef, and being on the coast, most extreme temperatures are moderated by the water. This cold streak is exceptional. The coldest I have ever been in my life was in December, in the desert in Tunisia. No one ever told me deserts could be some of the COLDEST places on earth!
Be sure to take your children – Seattle is child friendly. Play spots for children everywhere. π July and August are beautiful, I like September the best. π
the city of books! it’s such an intlxpatr place to settle!
missf
Stay safe on those roads!
And yeah, hubby dislikes the cold most times.
He can bare a sunshiny cold day, but please no rain.
π
And deep fried. Nope. We love deep fried, but here in Hungary they fry EVERYTHING! I mean it. Veggies, the whole nine yards.
But I also doubt he would want to move to Seattle ;0
its a shame that stuff so beautiful has to be so cold, i was up north last weekend and saw enough snow for a lifetime.
LOL, Mrm, you are SO right! There were book-talks and bood-signings at all the bookstores this week!
LOL, Nicole – I am thinking Germany can get pretty cold and dark in the winter, too!
UG – It’s so beautiful when it first starts snowing, and then . . . oh, the misery!
The cold is with us for a while–possibly to the end of the year. They are talking of the possibility of a white Christmas. We are cozy here. My pets just cuddle up and we are all warm.
Holy smokes! That is a long time to be cold in Seattle. How are the roads? How is the electricity holding up? Oh, how are the poor managing? π¦
Oh, argh. One of you may not be as thrilled about my Christmas present, then. My father doesn’t love Seattle, either – he doesn’t mind the cold, but he says that the gray just saps him of all energy.
But the skies in Seattle are the most beautiful I have ever seen in the US – and they are beautiful day after day after day.