Not sure if it's in the news where you live, but my home state of Washington is in a bit of a serious pickle. Instead of precipitation taking the form of fluffy snow like we used to always get this time of year, it's instead coming down as rain. Way too much rain.

We've got serious flooding going on, and it's been so bad that sections of a vital East/West roadway via Highway 2 over the mountains has washed away. It's pretty bad, and I don't know if they will be able to reopen it for months. Which is to say that it may not reopen until Spring, at the earliest.

And now we have one route left that's feasible... assuming you don't want to add 5+ hours to your journey by traveling South through the Columbia Basin, then West over to Portland, then North again to Puget Sound. And since I am assuming that's not time you have to waste, it's just the I-90 corridor that's viable. And heaven only knows what happens if that gets shut down.

I guess those of us East of the Cascade Mountains have to do what they did in pioneer times, and just hunker down for Winter and accept that Seattle is not accessible.

Or, you know, hop on a plane.

Something I haven't done in years and years because I was usually only doing that if I was connecting to a flight out of Seattle. But the connections have gone from bad... to worse... to abysmal, and so there's no real incentive given the additional cost.

Somebody really, really needs to invent transporters like they have on Star Trek so I'm not having to come up with worst-case scenarios so close to bedtime.