35 Replies to "WEST SEATTLE SNOW: Monday night updates, including Tuesday plans"
Thank you for all you do for WS!! You are my go to resource for everything WS and have been so helpful with information during this crazy Snowpocalypse!
Mike Ball: What a beautiful photo.
All of Avalon is buses (7:30pm) at least 10 buses stuck!
Thanks,just adding that above. Anywhere with even a slight hill is a place to avoid!
Please be aware route 21 is not running at all per Metro. They can’t get up the hill from Avalon. They’re being left where they get stuck there. Had a cold, wet walk home.
I’m assuming there’s no garbage pickup tomorrow for those of us who are scheduled for 2/12/19 pickup? It’s too much of a slushy mess to drag the cans to the curb.
Just tried to drive three blocks around Alaska Juction… nearly impossible. Slushmeggedon is now upon us!
Bus drama continues on California & Genessee near the downed utility pole. A few 128s pulled over by the Post Office and letting out passengers. Saw one earlier then make a U-turn in the middle of the intersection and double back.Cheers again to our bus drivers! They are the best. Glad I don’t have to be out in this — driving or trudging through the slush.The number of cars out and about seems to have slowed, thankfully. Hope everyone gets home safe.
AA very large limb just fell from the monkey puzzle tree in front of my house and is now blocking sidewalk. Saw the power lines bounce but remarkably still have power. Any advice on who to call about removal? I’ve already left a message with the tree service that just pruned and limbed our the tree in October.
I hope SPU will update the site soon. I need to know if I should put out my bins or not!
Thank you wsb, for all you do, definitely, a valuable local resource. Hope you get a break sometime soon.
Did they get you on another plane to FL? We are booked on the same flight later in the week.
Yes, leaving today and looking forward to warming up :) thanks for asking…have a wonderful trip!
ST 560 is not running to Westwood this evening. It is stopping at Burien transit Center per an email notice I got.Heaven help anyone at the airport expecting to get here that way.
With the snow melt comes the standing water.We are under a flood warning until tomorrow, lots of water in the snow and it has no where to go. Tomorrow’s commute is going to be a mess!
The flood warning’s not in our area, but not far. We have only a “winter weather advisory.” However, the vigorous flow in the downspout outside the nearest window sounds ALMOST flood level!
The flood warning, if you follow the link on the NWS Seattle page (lower right), doesn’t include our area. Confusingly written, though, and maybe they’ll fix that in the early morning update.
Several houses along 7300 block of Gatewood haven’t had power since about 5:30/6:00. For whatever reason SCL map isn’t shower an outage and their automated outage system still doesn’t register it. We’ve called SCL three times only to have them tell us we had not registered our house and neighborhood as losing power. This is in addition to 911 dispatching SFD because there were live wires down.
Thanks TR! You are right that this area has historically not registered with SCL; it’s very frustrating.
Hopw everyone is safe! We live on Myrtle street. Just east of California street on the top of a big hill and dead end street. My family and a lot of the elderly neighbors have pretty much been stuck here but now my husband and I have a flight to catch at 8am On Wednesday morning. Have people been making it to the airport? Any advice?
I went to the airport at 6:30 pm in a Lyft and got there fine. My flight to Lauderdale got cancelled so i tried to hop flight to JFK but that would be flying into more snow. Got a ride home from SEA-TAC to WS at 10pm and it was slush and wet all the way. I’m gonna try for my actual flight tomorrow at 7:15 am. Hope it doesn’t get cancelled the Alaska customer service line was sooooo long. As of now I’ve been on hold for 40 minutes. Pack your patience and leave early. Good luck!!
I took some relatives to the airport around 9:30 pm. Aside from deep slush on the side streets, my round-trip to the airport was uneventful. Their flight out left as scheduled.
Got an update from Metro: route 21 appears to be back in service as of around 11:30 PM Monday night.Good luck to anyone commuting tomorrow, I have rarely been so glad to be retired as this past week.
Our power just came back on YAY at 3:54 am – in Highland Park.
that thing in the 9:45 update picture looks like a road grader, which is used to level gravel or asphalt in road-grading operations. never seen one used for plowing snow,, but it does have a big blade on the bottom…SPU says “one day delay” regarding monday trash pickup; not clear if that means the whole week is shifted one day again, or if they’re going to double up today.
Community Transit (serving Lynnwood, etc.) switched to double decker buses. Larger capacity, smaller footprint and, not as likely to get stuck in snowy conditions – like these silly Metro articulated buses!