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December 14, 2006

You'd think Seattle would be more used to heavy rain ()

by fluffy at 8:07 PM
I just spent TWO AND A HALF HOURS on the BUS because people FREAK OUT when there's too much rain. SOME traffic problems were justified because of the flooding in some areas but COME ON. TWO and a HALF HOURS to go SIX MILES.

I should have taken the #28 instead of the #15. I would have if I'd known about the traffic problems which were on the 15/17/18 line. The utterly shocking thing was that during the trip, the bus driver didn't know anything about what was going on. Where were the goddamn traffic bulletins? HELLO you guys have a RADIO for a REASON, and he was actually contacting the base several times and they didn't have any idea what to tell him.

COME ON people.

The worst part about the time spent was that most of it was WEDGED AGAINST THE WALL by a Phat D00d playing his PSP and taking every inch of personal space that he could. It doesn't help that I have a hard time sitting still for any decent amount of time, this guy is making it so I don't even have any room to MOVE. And then all the conversations around me built up and I was in a very bad place and now I'm at home and it's nice and quiet and hello everyone.

Grrrrrrrrrrr.

Comments

#8043 12/15/2006 10:38 am rain
Last night, the rain actually caused underpasses in the city core to flood and completely block traffic on the I-5 and elsewhere. This probably contributed to the hassles you encountered as people scrambled for alternate routes.

C'mon people, this is seattle... being unable to cope with snow and ice is one things, but rain?
#8044 12/15/2006 12:25 pm
Well yeah, apparently the 99 viaduct was closed which was why downtown sucked, Queen Anne had some landslides which is why Queen Anne sucked, and there was massive flooding on Elliot and Prospect which is why Elliot sucked. Hey, those happen to be the three stages of my commute.

The only thing I saw directly was the flooding but it shouldn't have caused the huge creeping crawl that it did. So one northbound lane was blocked off. BIG DEAL.