A Washington Department of Transportation snowblower clears the road under I-90 at Summit West as backcountry skiers head up the Pacific Crest Trail after a heavy snowfall Friday at Snoqualmie Pass. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
A Washington State Department of Transportation snowblower clears the road at Summit West last week. More snow is forecast. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
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Heavy snow fell in the mountains and heavy rain in Western Washington on Wednesday, with some flooding possible in low-lying areas Thursday. The state Department of Transportation urges travelers to check road conditions before heading out.

Kalen DeBoer speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, in Seattle to introduce him as the new head NCAA college football coach at the University of Washington. DeBoer has spent the past two seasons as head football coach at Fresno State. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW117 WATW117
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Patient Fred Rutherford, of Claremont, N.H., who is recovering from COVID-19, speaks on a telephone with a reporter from The Associated Press from an isolation room at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H., Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Hospitals like this medical center, the largest in New Hampshire, are overflowing with severely ill, unvaccinated COVID-19 patients from northern New England. If he returns home, Rutherford said, he promises to get vaccinated and tell others to do so, too. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) NYAG303 NYAG303
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Mike Mathias, former executive director of volunteer-run organization Anything Helps, collects information from people living at Bitter Lake homeless encampment so they can get on a list for temporary housing on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021
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This Feb. 19, 2018 photo shows hula dancers telling their stories through graceful moves at a traditional hula and feast, the Old Lahaina Luau, in Maui. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)
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FILE — The mob at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. The anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot arrives this week with the congressional committee investigating the attack confronting a series of difficult questions, including how forcefully to flex its subpoena power and whether the Supreme Court will stymie a major element of its inquiry. (Jason Andrew/The New York Times) XNYT72 XNYT72
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Blandy Inzunza, a 22-year-old Seattle University student, poses with her two children, Kaelani, 7, (l) and Mia, 3 (turns 4 on Dec. 10) in the Student Center on the S. U. campus Friday, December 3, 2021. Blandy has gotten help from Treehouse since she was a teenager in foster care. She is the only one of eight siblings to have graduated from high school, and says she would not have done so with Treehouse’s support. The organization now helps her with groceries, gas, clothes and moral support as she takes pre-med classes at Seattle University. 218958
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China Perkins reads a book to her son Kingston in their Seattle apartment on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. Their one bedroom apartment is full of children’s books and musical instruments for Kingston. Perkins also works in early childhood education in Bellevue. Wellspring Family Services was able to help get Perkins into affordable housing. When they moved in, Wellspring furnished the apartment with everything they needed.
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Maxim Isaev plays around with his five-month-old son Adam in the kitchen of the family’s Bothell home Friday, November 26, 2021. He, his wife and their two young children are a family of asylum-seekers from Chechnya. They live in a transitional shelter provided by Hopelink. They’re unable to work because of their immigration status and they don’t have health insurance — Hopelink fills in the gaps. 218911
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Denisha Dunston and her children – John, 10; and Azaria, 5 – enjoy the sights and sounds of Snowflake Lane in Bellevue Thursday, December 2, 2021. 218895
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In this image from Senate Television video, Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, of Tampa, Fla., front, stands in the well on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. Hodgkins’ attorney wrote in part, “This country has a long history of the public seeking to punish those who are perceived to have done wrong in ‘their’ eyes. …. A significant percentage of our population will ‘cancel’ Mr. Hodgkins because of 15-minutes of bad judgment, casting stones in his directions, all the while never fully realizing their own indiscretions and hypocrisy.” (Senate Television via AP) DCJE836 DCJE836
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This Feb. 19, 2018 photo shows hula dancers telling their stories through graceful moves at a traditional hula and feast, the Old Lahaina Luau, in Maui. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)

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A resident receives free COVID rapid-antigen tests and masks in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, Dec. 29, 2021. A small, new real-world study suggests that two widely used at-home antigen tests, the Abbott BinaxNow and Quidel QuickVue, may fail to detect Omicron infections when people are carrying high levels of the coronavirus. (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times) XNYT121 XNYT121

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Washington State Governor Jay Inslee speaks about the latest round of covid/government mandates in his office at the state capitol in Olympia Wednesday, November 3, 2021. 218696

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Seen from the air, Bellevue’s Soma Towers apartments loom large in the foreground, overlooking Bellevue Downtown Park at center, while downtown Seattle’s skyscrapers are seen in the distance, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. Jon Talton writes about how Bellevue and Seattle fortunes are intertwined — they’re complementary, but they’re also competitors, and there have been good times and bad for both. 219061

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Arts & Life

Alison Mariella Désir jogs up the hill at Gas Works Park in Seattle on Dec. 22, 2021. Désir, a New York native who moved to Seattle in January 2021, is a competitive runner and mental health professional. She is the founder of “Meaning Thru Movement” a series of conversations about fitness and mental health. She says the program talks about issues such as intergenerational trauma or racism on the effects of mental health. She describes that movement is scientifically proven to help mental health. “Running provides a deep sense of freedom. Running can be really, really difficult but there are these moments that you live for where it feels like you are in the zone and like you are flying.” She says that running allows her to have an internal focus.

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Polar Bear plungers dash to the waters off Golden Gardens Park on New Year’s Day, Though sunny, the air temperature was about 28-degrees Saturday morning, twenty less than the water temperature. LO Linesonly January 1, 2022 219226
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Quinn Mason won the US National Climbing Championships this fall, and is training to make it to the Olympics in 2024. She knows her next moves on the wall and usually trains every two days then off one. REF to more photos online. Friday Dec. 3, 2021 218979
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Fresh off a national title, this Seattle climber is aiming for the Olympics

As a deep freeze has set in on Seattle, two people cast long shadows as they cross the 20th Avenue NE pedestrian bridge, seen from the air, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021 in the Ravenna neighborhood. 219193
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