Life Follow Bethany’s Advice…
posted by on December 14 at 16:57 PM
…and build an ark. Look out the window. It’s raining. It’s really, really raining. The streets are flooded, people crossing the street are up to their knees in water, it’s impossible to get a cab, coats and sticks and small dogs are floating by.
Rumors from downtown say it’s “totally flooded and gridlocked.” There are several inches of water in the streets—cars are stalled and pedestrians, unable to ford the crosswalks, are crossing in the middle of the road. (You’d think all the excess water would fall off the edge of the city into the sound, right? Or does it not work that way?)
And it’s going to keep raining. If you look to the column on the right, you will see life is, and will continue to be, “uncomfortable.”
(Or, barring an ark, bid on this.)
Things are starting to get crazy out here on the north coast
Level B of the Westlake Center parking garage is flooded out.
Downtown was bad, but not *that* bad. We got out of there intact... traffic on 5 coming towards downtown, on the otherhand, was gnargly. Up here in teh Greenwood, it's not flooding yet.
Where is all this badness happening, just downtown? I'm up here in the U-District and it doesn't seem so bad. I haven't found anything that is flooded and the wind was only a problem when I walked by the tall Safeco building.
I was going to catch a bus to Wallingford, but traffic was at a stand still. Too many fucking SOVs. I should have ridden my bike, but by the time I realized I wasn't going to make it via bus, it was too late to bike.
Most of the gridlock downtown is due to the Seahawks game, although there did appear to be some significant flooding on 15th N up near the Ballard Bridge, as well as on Nickerson. I hear the Mercer underpass beneath Aurora was seriously flooded, and I guess there's been some additional flooding in other low-lying areas, but seriously, it's no worse than what we got back on New Year's eve 1995 after that huge Christmas snowstorm melted in a couple of days.
Suck it up, people. It's just water.
And wind. Lot's and lot's of wind.
I'm confused. How the hell can downtown be flooded? It's at a 45 degree angle!
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