Our main freeways are blocked. The mountain passes are blocked by snow-slides, and at least southbound the main freeway (I-5) is blocked by flooding.
The Snohomish river is also flooding. I'm trying to remember what the geography looks like when it passes I-5.
We're fine. Our area is hilly plus we've got an extensive storm-drainage system. However, I keep wondering what the flow of food for retail sale is. Grains come in on rail (not necessarily open) but I think those are sent to Asia; stuff from local consumption is probably trucked in. Costco reports that they saw the obstacles coming and stocked up and re-routed.
We can last a long time if anything goes wrong; I have enough food for a small army. But we run out of fresh food pretty fast. Thankfully we still have some squashes. Unfortunately the squashes are pepos nearing the end of their longevity; that's why next year I am growing some moschatas and maximas; they last longer.
I am still waiting for some books to arrive since December. Winter weather has been getting in the way.
2 weeks of snow and ice, and lately a lot of what for us is high wind. My garden looks really pathetic.
This is Lonicera standishii, one of the winter-blooming Honeysuckles, in my garden. Not much to look at, but it blooms in winter, and is extremely tough. Oh, and it also happens to smell strongly like Daphne. Actually, just about everything that blooms this time of year smells like Daphne! (not quite true; wintersweet smells like Vanilla, and Azara microphylla smells like baked cookies!)
