Harsh words from LA Times blogger: We’re snow wimps

Kim Murphy says that though her comments on Seattle snow were harsh, she does take the power outage situations around Washington seriously. (Image courtesy PSE)

Kim Murphy who reports for the Los Angeles Times on Northwest events is a resident of Bainbridge Island. She said she’s been “kicked in the shins” over the last 24 hours for her comments in a blog post entitled Snow wimps: Seattle is shut down by first real storm of the season.

“Seattle is the only place that falls apart when two inches of snow falls,” Murphy told 97.3 KIRO FM’s Dori Monson Show. She said the roads were reasonably passable, as long as you’re not headed up a steep hill. She blames the careless drivers, many of whom are Los Angeles transplants that are even less-equipped for snow driving than native Seattleites.

Listen to Kim Murphy/LA Times on Seattle’s weather wimps

According to Murphy, the City of Seattle needs an army to handle the snow situation when it arrives, and the few plows we have paralyze us when storm finally does arrive.

Though, she does say the turn in weather is serious, and doesn’t mean for her comments to take lightly the situations of hundreds of thousands of Washington residents that now find themselves without power, and most importantly, heat. “It’s a serious situation.”

By Alyssa Kleven, MyNorthwest.com Editor