Seattle and the adjoining metropolitan area, population 3.3 million, is not prepared for natural disasters. So when a couple of inches of snow hit King County at 4:30pm on a sleepy Wednesday afternoon, our clogged transportation system went into cardiac arrest.
Like any good solider, I left work at 5:00pm. Just ten blocks from work at 5:50pm, I dug in for the journey of a lifetime.
The twenty-eight mile ride home took just under five hours and fifteen minutes. Road closures, an inch of ice, jack-knifed semis, cars sliding into ditches, buses with school children stranded along the highway, chain reaction accidents, several hundred cars abandoned --- some right in the middle of the freeway, hardy pioneers walking home from their abandoned cars in shorts, you name it, I saw it.
We didn't get cheated at my house. There's a good nine to twelve inches of snow here. Now that I finished eating dinner at 10:57pm, it is time to go outside, and shovel some snow.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Bob Uecker
He passed yesterday - he was the soundtrack of a Wisconsin summer for five-and-a-half decades, though you might know him from the movie Majo...
-
It is time to find a few smart individuals in the world of e-mail analytics and data mining! And honestly, what follows is a dataset that y...
-
It's the story of 2015 among catalogers. "Our housefile performance is reasonable, but our co-op customer acquisition efforts ar...
-
This is where we're headed: Let's say you want to invest an additional $100,000 in paid search. You should be able to see a p&l,...
You must live either in Issaquah or on the Plateau. :)
ReplyDeleteWhich would it be?
Unbelievable Kevin - glad you made it home safe and sound!
ReplyDeleteI drove home in 40 degree weather, then took a walk in a slight mist, with no snow on the ground. Who would have believed I'm the guy in Wisconsin and you're the guy in WA!
you've got the patience of a saint.
ReplyDeleteat the 5th block, I would have pulled over, bailed out of the car, and went looking for a bar to hang out in.
Anybody driving north, east or south ran into lots of driving fun on Wednesday evening. I think I tried all of those directions when finding a way to get home!
ReplyDeleteGlobal warming --- relevant everywhere but King County on Wednesday evening.