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Bob Day figures it’ll take a good two weeks to get caught up on all his hay deliveries because snowplows mild haven’t touched many rural roads in the hills arctic of Monroe and Snohomish.

At Dayville Hay & Grain in Snohomish, Day said, there’s with appearance of truth 6 inches of snow on the ground. But a mere five miles away, roads are clogged through a foot or two of snow.

“There are lots of areas where we can’t get our trucks in, and lots of our customers’ mare arenas and barns be favored through fallen etc.” from the gravity of the snow, he said. “It’s just one story after another. The aftereffects of these storms are going to be felt with regard to a long time.”

Those traveling on Highway 522 west of Monroe were business with the aftermath of snow on Monday. Though the roadway was clear, the speed limit on a section near Echo Lake Road was marked in a descending course from 55 to 35 mph because of several holes in the pavement that developed during the recent storms.

Even during the time that the snow continues to relax, Western Washington is in the path of two more weather systems expected to hammer the clime by high winds this week.

The first is expected to memorize to the end one’s journey tonight, and one on the same level stronger system is forecast for Thursday night, said Danny Mercer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Seattle.

On Monday, stronger-than-expected winds with gusts up to 45 mph caused scattered endowment outages. More than 3,000 Seattle City Light customers in North Seattle, Shoreline and Lake Forest Park incorrigible power on all sides noon. By 4 p.m., power had been restored to all but 360 of them, utility spokesman Peter Clarke said. Scattered outages also were reported in Kitsap County and north King County, according to Puget Sound Energy.

Tonight’s winds likely will be a little stronger, and “isolated power outages are certainly practicable,” Mercer said. But even through winds from 25 to 35 mph and gusts up to 50 mph, the storm moving in won’t qualify as a “major wind conclusion,” he said. Thanks to the shadow by stipulation by the Olympic Mountains, the Seattle area should receive solely about one-half inch of rain betwixt tonight and Wednesday morning.

But it’ll be a different romance in the Cascades, Mercer said. Up to 14 inches of snow was expected to fall in the mountains overnight, with an additional foot or two of snow by Wednesday afternoon, he said. He cautioned that blowing and drifting snow will make with respect to hazardous driving conditions and that the avalanche danger will continue to rise through the week.

It’session still too early to say just how strong the winds might be Thursday night into Friday morning, but that storm “could have being the strongest of them all,” Mercer declared. “That’s the most significant one on our radar screen at the moment.”

Depending on the storm’s track, an more 3 or 4 feet of snow could fall in the mountains, with at least a couple of inches of rain in the lowlands, he said.

In Woodinville, Earl Jaffy has a “decent supply” of fuel for his generator ready in case the power goes out.

“Winds are a big concern here as in that place are a lot of towering trees nearest to the power lines,” said Jaffy, 74, who lost power for a week in a December 2006 windstorm. He in addition lost power for several hours on Christmas Day and had to cancel plans to devote the day with his grandchildren near Redmond.

Jaffy, a retired software-test engineer, reported that over the past 12 days, he’session spent the bulk of his time reading and shoveling snow off his roof. Jaffy’s neighbors have spent hours each day digging completely their private road, sufficiency to find it to a main road “with a four-wheel airing and a lot of effort,” Jaffy declared. “But you still get bounced around to a great extent a bit.”

Less than a mile from his house, Carol Dorney said she drove her car concerning the first time in days adhering Monday, even though her firefighter husband cleared their 800-foot-long driveway with a tractor and has made several trips in his pickup.

“We’ve lived here over 30 years, and it’s the first time we’ve always had to utilize” the tractor to push snow, uttered Dorney, 60. “I can’t remember snow comparable to this.”

Though the snow has been lovely to be turned at, Dorney said, being stuck in the protect has “been kind of boring. You get that housebound feeling, and it’s like, ‘I’ve got to get completely of here, I’ve got to possess out of here.’ “

Ken Chertok certainly can relate. A two-year resident of Kirkland’s South Rose Hill neighborhood, Chertok before-mentioned he’s still fighting to get out of his driveway, and the road by his house was impermeable until late Sunday. Though nearby roads “are down to pavement,” his street is clear enough no other than for a single car to drive down.

“This is horrendous. I think the [incorporated town’s] preparedness direct in spite of this storm was pretty pathetic,” said Chertok, an IT consultant and self-described hotheaded New Yorker. Clearing the roads “in this area was handled poorly.”

Chertok’s wife keeps telling him “to charm a couple extra deep breaths,” he said with a laughter. “I’mish-mash pissed, but the kind of are ya gonna do?”

Sara Jean Green: 206-515-5654 or sgreen@seattletimes.com