{"id":13999,"date":"2026-03-15T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=13999"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:42:44","slug":"snow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=13999","title":{"rendered":"Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

The exciting news this week was the storm that swept across the northern Pacific Ocean and brought snow and rain to Washington. Snoqualmie Pass (70 miles west of here) got 42.5 inches. Ski areas had power outages. Drivers had “spin-outs” and roads were closed. I-90 is the major cross-state highway. Time and money is wasted as the freight trucks sit at the side of the road. Some do get into rest areas or Ellensburg and North Bend; the lucky drivers. Snow was reported in the Puget Sound Lowland, close to sea level. It didn’t stay around long, unlike here at home.
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\nWhen the snow started the ground was warmish and it melted. Then there was an accumulation of about 11 inches. Next there was several hours of light rain, and another 2 inches of snow.
\nFriday, I had a luncheon at CWU. The retired geography secretary and I were hosting. I got the truck into 4-wheel drive. A county snowplow truck was coming north. After meeting the truck, another driver and I got into the plowed lane. After about 5 miles the depth was less and the roads were more highly traveled. Saturday, neighbor Allen came and cleaned the snow off the driveway and out to the sheds. After that, I used the truck to make tire-paths to places Allen can’t get to. All is well.\"\"
\nI put sunflower seeds in three places. I use the truck to make paths to those. The little birds are happy.
\nThe birds shell the seeds so there is an abundance of black shells on the ground under the feeders. Deer will eat some of those. I’ve no idea of the nutrient value. The deer will eat the whole seed if they can get to them. Mostly I prevent that. The small squirrels are frequent feeders.
\nThe snow will get wet this coming week. Warmer temperatures and a “chance” of rain until next Saturday. The mountains will get rain and snow, 70% to 90% chance. That ought to make a mess of things. <\/p>\n

Keeping Track
\non the Naneum Fan
\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The exciting news this week was the storm that swept across the northern Pacific Ocean and brought snow and rain to Washington. Snoqualmie Pass (70 miles west of here) got 42.5 inches. Ski areas had power outages. Drivers had “spin-outs” and roads were closed. I-90 is the major cross-state highway. Time and money is wasted … Continue reading “Snow”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-3DN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14002,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions\/14002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}