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Scenes from a snowy day around Seattle

Originally published February 4, 2019 at 8:34 am Updated February 4, 2019 at 6:30 pm

A driver takes advantage of an empty parking lot near Madrona Park to create a squiggly art project spinning the car in circles before speeding off down Lake Washington Blvd. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

There’s no point in trying to get off a hill in Lake Forest Park, unless it’s by sled. Garret Dennis gives his 6-year-old daughter, Lillian, a ride down the snow-covered slope Monday. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

Enjoying the day: People go out walking in the snow Monday morning in Burien. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

For the first time, Dale Williams said he decided to use his leaf-blower for snow removal in Seattle’s Ravenna-Bryant neighborhood, after the region got its first substantial snowfall of the season on Monday. “It was just so thick!” said Williams, while clearing his vehicle before a second frigid act of ice from Mother Nature. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

This semi-truck, headed up Poplar Way at 204th Street Southwest in Lynnwood, had to stop for another vehicle that spun out in front of him causing its trailer to slide and wedge into two cars Monday. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

An Alaska Airlines plane is deiced at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday, where the temperature was 25 degrees at 10 a.m. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Many flights were delayed and according to a report on KIRO radio, 160 were cancelled at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac Monday morning (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Uh-oh. This Metro bus jackknifed as it tried to go up Northeast 55th Street on slick, packed snow. Getting around is difficult all over, and officials are advising folks to stay at home if possible. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

The wind catches Suzy-Q’s mane as her owner, William Taylor, tries to keep her warm heading into the street on Northeast 200th Place in Lake Forest Park. Despite a forecast of possible snow, a lot of people in the Puget Sound area were caught off-guard Monday when 6 to 8 inches fell in a lot of places. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

This milk truck from Smith Brothers Farms ran off the road along 228th Street Southwest between Brier and Canyon Park during Monday’s snow. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Efrem Elias, 13, from Lynnwood, slides down 228th Street Southwest on Monday. Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Olivia Killion, left, and Kellin Doyle walk down Southwest 160th Street as snow falls in Burien on Monday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

A BNSF tank train is stopped as a Union Pacific train continues along the tracks after snowfall in the Georgetown neighborhood of south Seattle. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Denny Way was marked “closed” between Capitol Hill and downtown Seattle, but some drivers ignored that and went sliding toward the city anyway. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Woody from Toy Story waves under a blanket of snow in the Georgetown neighborhood of south Seattle on Monday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

From left, Toosten Toth, 14 (foreground) and friends Brandon Bernard, 14, and Larissa Bernard, 13, crash as they are sledding down a Seahurst hillside Monday morning. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

From left, Toosten Toth, 14 (foreground) and friends Larissa Bernard, 13 (top left), and Brandon Bernard, 14, crash as they are sledding down a Seahurst hillside Monday morning. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

From left, Toosten Toth, 14 (foreground) and friends Larissa Bernard, 13 (top left) and Brandon Bernard, 14, crash as they are sledding down a Seahurst hillside Monday morning. They are all students at St. Francis of Assisi in Burien and since school was cancelled due to the snow, they hit the nearby hillsides. They were hoping to get another snow day Tuesday as well. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Ice accumulates on the window in a pedestrian overpass as cars pass below, to pick up passengers, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac Monday morning. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Alan Presley, from Mountlake Terrace, cross-country skies along 44th Avenue West in Mountlake Terrace on Monday. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Jeff Cook shovels snow at his family business, Cook’s Auto Rebuild, on Northeast Lake City Way in Bothell. He’s the fourth generation in his family to work there. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Winter wonderland? Cars navigate Southwest 160th Street as snow falls in Burien on Monday. Getting around has been tough all around the region. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Dad’s doing all the work! Ballard resident John Park tows his kids Cora Park, 3, (purple), left, and Kieran Park, 5, (blue), right, up the hill at the Carl English Botanical Gardens at the Ballard Locks. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)

Snow engulfs the Fireman’s memorial in Pioneer Square on Occidental Avenue South on Monday. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

An Alaska Airlines plane is deiced at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

The Burke-Gilman Trail is icy after Seattle’s first substantial snowfall but that didn’t stop people from using it, as viewed from the Princeton Ave. N.E. bridge on Monday. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

Uriel Policarpio brushes snow off his car in North Seattle to get ready for his morning commute. “I’m in the medical field so I have to go in.” (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Employees shovel snow on the sidewalks at the CVS pharmacy on First Avenue South in Burien on Monday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

You can see the path this truck took, even with four-wheel-drive, going up Northeast 55th Street Monday morning. Roads are slick all over, making travel often difficult and dangerous.(Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

A snow-plow driver plows snow in the cellphone parking lot at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday morning. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

People wait for the bus along 236th Street Southwest above Interstate 5 near the King-Snohomish County line. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Tara Vannoy walks along Ballinger Way Northeast in Mountlake Terrace early Monday, en route to work at the North City Safeway. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Traffic makes its way south along Interstate 5 early Monday near the King-Snohomish County Line. Northbound traffic is at left. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Heavy snow Monday morning in Mountlake Terrace. This is at 230th Street Southwest and 58th Avenue West. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Walking along Northeast Bothell Way in Kenmore was a challenge early Monday, but it may have been more efficient than driving on slick roads. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

A Metro bus is stuck in the snow and ice at the intersection of 61st Avenue Northeast at Northeast Bothell Way in Kenmore early Monday. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Mary Mark, owner of BowWow Fun Town, shovels the sidewalk in front of her business on 61st Avenue Northeast in Kenmore early Monday. Northeast Bothell Way is seen in the distance. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

People pause to take photos of snow and the string lights Sunday in Occidental Park in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Snow and rain fall Sunday afternoon on Pike Place Market. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

People walk by the fountain at Seattle Center as snow flurries come down Sunday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

As snow begins falling Sunday afternoon in Seattle, Gabriela Diaz protects her chihuahua. She and her mom, Maureen Diaz, right, are walking near Pike Place Market. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Snow starts to accumulate on the T-dock at Green Lake after 3:30 p.m. Sunday. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

Reese Stocking, 5, and little sister, Claire, 2, celebrate the arrival of snow with their parents, Andrew, left, and Diane, right, at Seattle Center on Sunday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

What comes down must go up; or at least that’s true when it comes to sledding. But after a few treks down her hill, 6-year old Lillian Dennis starts getting a little tired of the trek back up. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

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