Don't Trust Snakes: Ten things I learned about Seattle from The New York Times

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Monday, November 27, 2006

Ten things I learned about Seattle from The New York Times

Ten things I learned about Seattle from The New York Times:

Downtown Seattle is in the "rain shadow" of the Olympic Mountains and Sea-Tac Airport is not.

This is "a region accustomed to ducking but enduring."

We "reverently" refer to Mount Rainier as "the mountain." (Most people I know would want to avoid creating the impression that they were referring to a bland radio station.)

A newspaper reader might imagine that the name of "the mountain" refers to its climate.

Eighteen inches of rain in 36 hours is "far more" than Seattle received in the same period this November. (Oh, wait, I guess this follows from Seattle not yet having received 15 inches in the entire month.)

(My personal favorite, by the way) A potential benefit from all the rain: deeper snowpacks, "potentially smoothing the journey of salmon smolts that will ride the rivers to sea next year." (Awwww.)

We locals "commonly quip" that our abundant summer sunshine is "a fact that is best kept a secret . . . to prevent even more outsiders from moving here."

If you work hard as a street musician, you could one day become an Autoharpist.

Autoharp and Autoharpist are not generic terms. (Always insist on genuine Autoharp brand chorded zithers and chorded-zither accessories.)

Some people erroneously think rain causes Seasonal Affective Disorder.

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