The Snow Is the Limit

The snow is peacefully dropping from the Seattle sky, and instead of embracing this change of weather everyone seems to freak out. Everyone seems overwhelmed and schools shuts down and the buses stop driving. And the funny part is that only barely one inch of snow is lying on the ground. When we share a typical story about the danish winter, the Americans can't even comprehend that we are actually capable of managing to proceed with our everyday life in a normal manor. I had a conversation with an American on my bus ride home to day, and he said that to take your drivers license you don't even have to drive in an environment where the slippery roads of the winter were simulated to give you some sort idea how you exactly should manage a car during the winter time. No wonder why they freak out. Numerous accidents happens on the highway simply because no one knows how to deal with slippery roads. And us danes can sit back and laugh at the events. Everyone feels so powerless and they use the snow as an excuse for not going to work or school just because they can. So today when I was planing on going to Seattle to wander around for probably the last time I was impeded in doing so. Really the sky is NOT the limit - the snow is! At least if you are a citizen in the state of Washington.