That's nothing. In 1998 (I'm pretty sure) Seattle had 96 days of light drizzle with nary a ray of sunshine. The suicide rate went up massively, and I decided to move to CA as soon as I had the means.
Which is of course what happened -- they decided they wanted the technology and the engineering team (including me) and after some negotation got to a price that worked for everybody. Moving up to Redmond was part of the deal.
At the celebration party, people gave me various presents -- including a scuba mask, flippers, rubbers, several umbrellas...
And yeah, everything they say about the winters here is true. So please please please don't move here :)
Huh, just noticed this: http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2007/11/low-hanging-late-harves...
It looks like you and I left Microsoft in the same week. Funny timing.