The Seattle Times has a nice story on the poor snow removal of the December 2008 snows. Check out:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008885019_sdot19m.html
and KIRO TV is doing their storm special again at 10 PM.
Nice example of rainshadowing today NE of the Olympics (both in the radar AND the visible satellite picture). Those retirees in Sequim may be golfing in the sun right now, while I had to bike in in the rain! The models handle this kind of situation well...take a look at the 3-h precipitation ending 10 AM....