Fun times in Seattle

starkiller
starkiller Posts: 2,723
edited November 2010 in The Clubhouse
My wife works in downtown Seattle and catches the bus at 4pm pacific time, in 4 hours she is still in Seattle, at the MLK exit and the bus still has about 40 miles to go....Snow and wind is making the streets real icy and thats the problem, well, that and folks not having the correct tires on their cars AND a fatal car/pedestrian accident on I5 in Tacoma :frown:

She will probably get home in time to turn around and go back to work, I would use this time to swap some speakers around but the power has been going off and on so dont want that to happen as I go to take a step into the garage with a speaker in my arms and poof! Well, poof then bam, then expletives then emergency room

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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited November 2010
    Its about 75 degrees here.:biggrin:
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited November 2010
    Oh yah I forgot, its 24 here:tongue:
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  • Jetmaker737
    Jetmaker737 Posts: 1,045
    edited November 2010
    Took me 4 and a half hours to get home from Everett. What a fiasco! So many idiots in the ditch. Seattle drivers are retarded.
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited November 2010
    Yeah, remember that Monday night two years ago when the Seahawks had that Monday night game and the streets were like ice? I live in dupont and worked in tukwila on the night shift and it took me 4 hours to get to work. I lived in Denver for 35 years and never saw ice on a freeway like I saw that night. At least 3-4" solid inches worth, so, put the subaru in 4wd-low and inched around everyone who was chaining up and such. Nice and easy with no problems, once i could get around folks :)
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited November 2010
    Put your speaker cables outside and get a free cryo treatment.
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited November 2010
    That would work as long as I make sure i attach them to the house, it's really blowing hard out there too....heck, this reminds me of Denver and when I left in the first place !!
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited November 2010
    I used to be a big snow skier (then I got old:frown:) and laughed at people in Colorado thinking it was cold.
    It would be 5 degrees and I would be in a short sleeve shirt.
    No humidity/dry cold.
    You couldn't pack a snow ball it was so dry (Steamboat Springs).
    Where I live, it is the other way around, cold/wet high humidity.
    You could deer hunt with a snow ball here!:eek:

    Then I went to Wyoming, and Montana.
    Those people know what cold is!
    I was looking for the "North Pole" sign the last time I was in Big Sky!
    It was -20, and I was NOT laughing at them!
    It hurt to laugh!
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited November 2010
    Now going on 6 hours and still no movement, state patrol said its going to be at least another hour, apparently two semi's have to be towed off the road first....
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  • messiah
    messiah Posts: 1,790
    edited November 2010
    Just have her call off tomorrow. It's F'n pointless given the weather.
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited November 2010
    The bus is moving...there is hope! And yep, she already called her boss :)
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  • bikerboy
    bikerboy Posts: 1,211
    edited November 2010
    I just got home! 9 miles in 3 hours. I drive a wrx with toyo snow tires so I was good. The other idiots should have walked, it would have been faster! I'm still waiting for my wife. She got on a bus about 4pm and 7 hours later still isnt home. She just got home! Long day.
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited November 2010
    I'm just to the north and east of you guys up in British Columbia in the Okanagan valley and we don't have a lot of snow but it's very friggin' cold for November. -17 celcius and supposed to go to as low as -23 tomorrow night. It wasn't that cold all last winter!! Sorry to hear about the commute in Seattle. Vancouver drivers are just as retarded in the snow.
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited November 2010
    She still isn't home but should be by around 12:30..thats only an eight and a half hour commute....I have this feeling its going to be a long winter:eek:
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited November 2010
    Wife got home just after 1am...
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited November 2010
    Good. It's good she made it home safe. Take care up there.

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  • potee
    potee Posts: 610
    edited November 2010
    We can all be thankfull that she got home safe under those conditions. Best to stay off the roads when possible when its like that.

    PoTee
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  • Jetmaker737
    Jetmaker737 Posts: 1,045
    edited November 2010
    potee wrote: »
    We can all be thankfull that she got home safe under those conditions. Best to stay off the roads when possible when its like that.

    PoTee

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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,999
    edited November 2010
    starkiller wrote: »
    She still isn't home but should be by around 12:30..thats only an eight and a half hour commute....I have this feeling its going to be a long winter:eek:

    Where the hell did people go to the bathroom? there is no way I could be stuck somewhere for 8hrs and not have to use the can. Glad she made it home.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited November 2010
    What is this 'snow' you speak of?
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2010
    steveinaz wrote: »
    What is this 'snow' you speak of?

    It's that white stuff they get up in Sedona.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited November 2010
    well, as far as the bathroom goes, I guess some women had to get off the bus and do the "squat" thing behind a blanket. My wife made it to the park'n'ride ok but once the cold air hit her she too had to do "squat". 8 hours is way too long to hold it....
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited November 2010
    After 41 yrs in Seattle, I'm not missing those gridlock causing snow storms at all, nor will I miss what my old telephone cable repair buds are going to be going through when it all melts.

    I was up there last month for a week, and there was 5 straight days of sun in mid October, it almost made me want to move back.....Almost. :tongue:
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