Pierce County residents responding to our all-call tell us they got emergency alerts this afternoon about a blizzard from Tacoma, University Place, Spanaway and other lowland areas that the National Weather Service says are not expected to get blizzards. We also heard from Seattle-area residents who got the same alert.
Pierce County residents responding to our all-call tell us they got emergency alerts this afternoon about a blizzard from Tacoma, University Place, Spanaway and other lowland areas that the National Weather Service says are not expected to get blizzards. We also heard from Seattle-area residents who got the same alert.
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Residents from Tacoma, Puyallup, University Place, Spanaway and other lowland areas told The News Tribune they received emergency alerts Sunday afternoon about a blizzard that the National Weather Service said was not expected in their areas.
No large, wind-driven snowstorms were forecast to hit lowland Pierce County on Monday, but that didn’t stop some residents from receiving “blizzard alerts” on their cellular telephones for the second day in a row.
As people around Western Washington deal with the fallout of high winds that swept the region Monday, forecasters said a second storm today is preparing to bring a smattering of snow as low as sea level.
Today and tonight might be a good time to read the Sunday paper, watch football and finish wrapping the Christmas presents.
One of the most active of the many Boy Scouts of America troops in our area is Key Peninsula’s Troop 220, sponsored by the Key Peninsula Lions Club. A few weeks ago, members of the troop, their scoutmasters and accompanying dads braved the snow-smothered but fabulously beautiful slopes of Mount Rainier at its centerpiece, the area known as Paradise. While on the adventure, the troop hiked with snowshoes, set up camp, endured a pretty serious blizzard, ate hotdogs, dug snow caves, built igloos and survived sleeping in the latter without a single case of frostbite.
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