I have some dim recall of contemporary snowstorms in that area-- sometime before then, perhaps when I was 2-4 or 3-5 or so (I can only be certain that I started first grade in Virginia Beach at a new school, and since we lived a total of 9 years there, but we left in the winter of 7th grade...) anyway, Dad was stationed at the Pentagon for about 2 years (that's a guess, but a typical tour length for someone that in that part of his career) when I was a toddler out in west Fairfax Cty.
I have a recollection of being rescued from deep snow (probably a foot or less) by my mother, and another time when, owing to the L-shape of our house forming a snowdrift against it, my dad disembarked the roof of the (single-story) house (where he had probably been clearing snow) by just jumping off the roof into that drift, startling me to tears. Weird how I recall that.
Virginia Beach is comparatively mild, and, Seattle milder still. We got 2" last night, but the city is perpetually unprepared for a complete response, because snow accumulation is an every-3-to-7-years thing, so there's just not enough equipment.
It wasn't too long after I was 6 that I started watching the CBS Evening News with my Dad; I was a faithful Ratherite throughout the 80s, so I got a decent cross section of disaster news throughout the rest of that decade.
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Date: 2007-01-17 03:01 am (UTC)I have a recollection of being rescued from deep snow (probably a foot or less) by my mother, and another time when, owing to the L-shape of our house forming a snowdrift against it, my dad disembarked the roof of the (single-story) house (where he had probably been clearing snow) by just jumping off the roof into that drift, startling me to tears. Weird how I recall that.
Virginia Beach is comparatively mild, and, Seattle milder still. We got 2" last night, but the city is perpetually unprepared for a complete response, because snow accumulation is an every-3-to-7-years thing, so there's just not enough equipment.
It wasn't too long after I was 6 that I started watching the CBS Evening News with my Dad; I was a faithful Ratherite throughout the 80s, so I got a decent cross section of disaster news throughout the rest of that decade.