Hey guys, my trip starts this afternoon, and sometime in the next few days I’ll try to hop on and let you all know if I ran into any trouble with my carry-on instruments.
Somebody harrass Gloo in the chat while I’m gone, okay? 
Hi Beth,
you said you were off to Seattle and they wouldn’t have snow.
Aren’t there two Seattles in the States, one on in Washington State (or thereabouts) and one on the northwest corner?
I thought they were both northerly enough to merit snow?
cheers, Martin
Only one seattle that I know of, and it’s in the northwest corner of washington state which is in the northwest corner of the US. But since they are right on the coast, the temperature doesn’t typically drop down enough to snow. Lots of rain though.
Safe and happy journey, Beth!
Andrea ~*~
On 2002-12-19 10:09, avanutria wrote:
Only one seattle that I know of, and it’s in the northwest corner of washington state which is in the northwest corner of the US. . . .
Well, actually, ALASKA is in the northwest corner of the United States. It’s just that mapmakers keep drawing Alaska, shrunken, lying just west of Baja. (Hmmm . . . come to think of it, many Alaskans would like to be smaller and lying near Baja, especially in this holiday overeating season during the shortest days of the year. . . )
I won’t make any comments about the actual northwest corner of Washington State, because I don’t want to be dubbed the Geography Cop, and reviled like the legendary Spelling Cop. That wouldn’t be fair because really I’m lousy at geogrphie an speleng. Rilly.
Sarah
On 2002-12-19 10:07, Martin Milner wrote:
Hi Beth,you said you were off to Seattle and they wouldn’t have snow.
…I thought they were both northerly enough to merit snow?
As mentioned by others, there is only one Seattle, in Washington State, which is in the northwest corner of the “lower 48” United States.
I lived in Seattle for a year and we got snow once… The whole city shut down because they couldn’t handle 4 inches. I got the impression that snow didn’t happen too often. My Seattle winter was actually warmer than the ones I grew up with in Georgia.
News flash:
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Security people don’t care about low whistles and bodhrans, just tell them what they are so the xray guy doesn’t have to speculate. I just said “a flute and a drum” and didn’t have to open anything.
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A 17.5 inch bodhran case fits below the seat of a 737 and an A320 aircraft.
On 2002-12-19 10:07, Martin Milner wrote:
Hi Beth,you said you were off to Seattle and they wouldn’t have snow.
Aren’t there two Seattles in the States, one on in Washington State (or thereabouts) and one on the northwest corner?
I thought they were both northerly enough to merit snow?
cheers, Martin
I wonder if you’re thinking of Portland? There are two Portlands that I know of…one in Oregon (Pacific Northwest) and one in Maine (Northeast).
For some reason that I’ve never been able to fathom, a lot of folks seem to get Seattle and Spokane (both in Washington…Seattle west of the Cascades, on Puget Sound, and Spokane in the Eastern part of the state, near the Idaho border) mixed up. When I worked for the tourist bureau in Spokane, people were always asking me how to get to the Space Needle (Answer: Get on I-90 West and drive for about six hours…less now that the speed limit has been adjusted up to a more reasonable level). Spokane, being in the high desert near the foothills of the Bitteroot Mountains, gets quite a lot of snow in the winter, but Seattle, being on the ocean side of the Cascades, gets it rarely.
Redwolf