{"id":1251,"date":"2012-03-22T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T16:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2012-10-19T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T13:23:04","slug":"okay-who-brought-the-cold-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2012\/03\/22\/okay-who-brought-the-cold-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay, who brought the cold weather?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had to travel from Seattle to Spokane last week, and when Keith G. loaned us his car and his wife Florence started talking about chains, we NEVER dreamed we&#8217;d actually have to use them! \u00a0After all, the crocuses were blooming in their front yard!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-spring.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1252\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-spring-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-spring-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-spring.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Well, we got to Snoqualmie Pass, and sure enough, the snow was falling and the wind was blowing, and the digital traffic signs were telling us all kinds of things that we didn&#8217;t want to hear about! \u00a0So, Roy put chains on the car, his first experience with chains. \u00a0Once he got them in place, we waited a good hour or so for the crazy chainless cars to be towed out of their logjam mess ahead of us up the mountain. \u00a0 The scenery was breathtaking, but we were thankful to get to the other side of the Cascades, I can tell you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-chains.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1253\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-chains-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-chains-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-chains.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-lineup-for-the-pass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1254\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-lineup-for-the-pass-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-lineup-for-the-pass-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-lineup-for-the-pass.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-snow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1255 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-snow-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-snow-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/03\/blog-WA-snow.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=1251&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had to travel from Seattle to Spokane last week, and when Keith G. loaned us his car and his wife Florence started talking about chains, we NEVER dreamed we&#8217;d actually have to use them! \u00a0After all, the crocuses were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2012\/03\/22\/okay-who-brought-the-cold-weather\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,2729],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-transportation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Okay, who brought the cold weather? 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