West Seattle Weather Watch: No, it’s NOT a sign of impending snow

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One day after Metro‘s winter-weather briefing for the King County Council (our update with a link to the PowerPoint presentation is here) – which included an explanation of the “memorandum of understanding” between the city and county to make sure bus routes are prioritized during future snow – SDOT is doing snowplow practice again today, for at least the second time this fall. Thanks to Leah for the photo – one of 2 she saw on the Edmunds/41st hill – and also to Cheryl for a tip via Twitter. SDOT tells us its annual winter-weather briefing for the media will happen sometime next week; they drew up lots of new policies and procedures for last year, after Snowpocalypse/Snowmare woes in late ’08, but never got the chance to put them to use. No need to wait for that, though – this winter’s snow-routes map is already available online.

buddsmom November 2, 2010 (10:51 am)

Believe it when I see it!

coffee November 2, 2010 (11:15 am)

I saw 2 earlier this morning traveling S on 26th Ave SW just south of Westwood Village.

KBear November 2, 2010 (12:10 pm)

…because if it WERE snowing, the snowplow would be somewhere ELSE!

sarelly November 2, 2010 (12:11 pm)

Isn’t there a 7-11 right across the street from there, at Barton & 35th?

WSB November 2, 2010 (12:14 pm)

Sarelly, that’s “Super Deli Mart.” Similar type of thing.

tiredofthewhiners November 3, 2010 (12:34 pm)

You know what amazes me about West Seattleites is there is always the expectation that your neighborhood deserves more than others in the city. The city is working with a lot less money & staff this year than any other year and yet SDOT is putting themselves out there to be prepared and YOU criticize them for that!! What a bunch of crap! Each of you should run away with tails draggin! I think it’s time West Seattle did more physical shoveling and less mouth action!!

WSB November 3, 2010 (12:46 pm)

Oh, TOTW, you can’t generalize about an entire section of the city because of a couple grumpy commenters. Nonetheless, a few things of interest … which you are probably well aware of … West Seattle is physically the largest neighborhood in the city; and certainly the hilliest (including the highest point in the city). It was the hardest-hit in the 2006 windstorm (people here were out for days longer than pretty much anyone else in the city) and in the 2008 snowstorm – then of course there was the 2007 rainstorm, which hit parts of WS so hard that they became the cover photo for a local government report (we were asked to connect an agency with a reader-contributed pic of a house facing rising waters). So I would defend our fine neighborhood overall – not to say this justifies bitching, but to your point regarding expectations – as perhaps suffering from a wearying abundance of experience. As of course city workers are, too. – TR

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