Seattle swamped with snowy scenes on Saturday

Originally published February 13, 2021 at 10:14 amUpdated February 14, 2021 at 7:03 am

Maya Lesso, 8, carries her sled back up hill at Jefferson Park in Beacon Hill as children play in the heavy snow blanketing the Seattle area Saturday February 13, 2021. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

More often seen at Snoqualmie Pass than in the city, a chained-up giant road grader plows streets in Ballard on Saturday afternoon. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Children sled down 65th Avenue Northwest after the road was closed to cars due to the heavy snowfall. Heavy snow blanketed the Seattle area on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

With Pine Street to the Pike Place Market closed, Max Djenohan uses a handrail for snowboarding tricks on Saturday. He had friends make sure no pedestrians were in the path down Pine Street. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Snow didn’t stop anyone from grabbing a beer on the outdoor patio at RidgeWood Bottle & Tap on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Snow-laden branches frame walkers along Beacon Avenue South at Jefferson Park, in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood on Saturday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Three buses are stuck coming up Lenora Street at Fifth Avenue downtown as snow comes to the Seattle area Saturday. One of the drivers said they had been stuck there for two hours after their chains came off and they couldn’t make it up the hill. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Adina Cook, 7, slides down a hill at Gas Works Park. The family decided not to go to Snoqualmie Pass to ski, but instead stay in the city. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

When the city puts up a snow closure sign like this one at the Pike Place Market, drivers should heed it. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Children sled down 65th Avenue Northwest in Phinney Ridge after the road was closed to cars due to the snowfall. Heavy snow blanketed the Seattle area on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Miguel Salazar walks home after a grocery run on foot to the Red Apple in Beacon Hill as snow continues to fall in the Seattle area Saturday. “It’s kinda nice to be out and experience it,” he said. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

People walk by Jefferson Park in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle as heavy snow blankets the Seattle area Saturday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

David Cook and daughter Maya, 5, watch another daughter and mom descend the hill at Gas Works Park. All are skiers. Maya says she’s 5 3/4-years old. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Jonathan Forman and his son Milo, 5, go sledding at Jefferson Park in Beacon Hill as heavy snow blankets the Seattle area Saturday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Kite Hill in Gas Works Park attracts a cross-country skier as well as tubers and sledders. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

John Kramer makes his way down 42nd Avenue South in Columbia City on Saturday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

It’s slow-going on a bicycle in the snow in Fremont on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Desta, left, and Genet, right, try to dig out a path for their driver’s car as heavy snow blankets the Seattle area Saturday. Genet is a nurse in a nursing home who spent an hour trying to hail a ride. She finally found a driver, but even his all-wheel drive SUV couldn’t make it up unplowed 42nd Avenue South in the Columbia City neighborhood. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Jefferson Park makes a good cross-country ski trail Saturday thanks to all the snow in and around Seattle. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Fourth Avenue downtown has almost no traffic and few pedestrians in the early afternoon. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

It’s not the Ice Age, but this dinosaur in Fremont hasn’t seen this much snow in a long time. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Beacon Avenue South is plowed but slick after heavy snow blankets the Seattle area Saturday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

This St. Francis on Phinney Ridge has a bowlful of food for birds and squirrels. St. Francis is the patron saint of animals. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Umbrellas aren’t useful just for rain in the Emerald City along Fourth Avenue in downtown. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Gathering snow, a person living on the street has pitched their tent along First Avenue in front of the defunct Lusty Lady theater. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Pike Place Flowers is a bright spot in the Pike Place Market the day before Valentine’s Day. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

This driver needed snow shovel help in leaving a parking lot along First Avenue on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Winston, a black Labrador, and Thea, a golden doodle, frolic in the powder at Jefferson Park as heavy snow blankets the Seattle area Saturday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Many pedestrians found it easier to walk in the street than on unshoveled sidewalks in Fremont. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

A car gets stuck on 42nd Avenue South in Columbia City as heavy snow blankets the Seattle area Saturday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

It’ll be a long wait for public transit to pick up these folks Waiting for the Interurban in Fremont. The cast aluminum sculpture is by Richard Beyer. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Camila Sandoval, 6, front, and her friend Christopher Baez, 7, hit a bump and go flying while tubing down a hill at Jefferson Park on Saturday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Maya Lesso, 8, sleds down a hill at Jefferson Park on Saturday. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Sledders take turns cruising down a hill in West Seattle on Saturday. (Danny Gawlowski / The Seattle Times)

One of the sculptures in the sculpture park at the Fourth and Blanchard building in Belltown gets a blanket of snow Saturday February 13, 2021. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Pedestrians walk on plowed streets instead of un-shoveled sidewalks downtown, looking towards Pioneer Square as heavy snow blankets the Seattle area Saturday February 13, 2021. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

A car skids down a hill on Columbia Street, almost into traffic on 4th Avenue downtown, as heavy snow blankets the Seattle area Saturday February 13, 2021. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Twins Nico, left, and Luca Strumolo, 2, smile through the cold as heavy snow blankets the Seattle area Saturday February 13, 2021.(Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

A woman has to lean into her baby stroller to get up NW 59th Street in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle mid-day Saturday, February 13, 2021. (Ann Hopping Nelson / Special to The Seattle Times)

Snowflakes continue through the afternoon in Columbia City as the Seattle area gets a big winter storm Saturday February 13, 2021 (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Edward Wellsey, 5, tubes down a hill in Woodland Park on Saturday. Heavy snow blanketed the Seattle area on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Buses and cars drive downhill on Aurora Avenue North on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Snow continues to fall, picking up in the mid-afternoon along Rainier Avenue South in Columbia City Saturday February 13, 2021. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Buses appear stuck going up Lenora Street west of 4th Avenue in Belltown as heavy snow blankets the Seattle area Saturday February 13, 2021. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

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