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Cooler than sandcastles

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| Seen around town | West Seattle weather

While Lady Liberty’s away, the snowpeople will play! (another Alki pic from Bob Bollen)

Sugar and spice and everything n(ot )ice

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| Transportation | West Seattle weather

The crowd at Thriftway is positively giddy about the afternoon melt-off giving them the chance to flee their snowbound domiciles … one lady in the meat section nearly mowed us down with enthusiasm, declaring without provocation, “This is the FIRST time I’ve been out in A WEEK! My freezer’s almost EMPTY! Seeing all this is like a CANDY STORE!” Oh by the way, at least as of 4 pm-ish, despite this morning’s snow, the arterials are in better shape than ever; the bridge doesn’t even have as much ice/slush on the inside shoulder as yesterday; but the side streets’ condition depends on what shape they were in before this morning. The iciest ones stayed that way; the ones where bare spots had started to bloom still show blacktop. Here’s hoping tonight doesn’t REALLY get all that cold …

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Alki, or Alaska?

January 16, 2007 1:02 pm

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| Pets | West Seattle weather

Even the beach got a blast of snow, and that made for some unusual sights, such as this one sent to us by Cami from AlkiNews.com:

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Roads, buses, and so on

January 16, 2007 8:39 am

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| Transportation | West Seattle weather

We haven’t been out driving but wanted to remind you that our West Seattle cams page has the city cameras for the bridge and for Fauntleroy/Alaska and Fauntleroy/35th. As for buses, we’re not seeing specific alerts but there’s a lot of great info on the Metro page including where the buses are and when. If you’ve got road info, feel free to post it in the comments here.

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Snow day, AGAIN

January 16, 2007 6:15 am

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| West Seattle schools | West Seattle weather

Seattle Public Schools will be closed today, as we all deal with Snow, The Sequel.

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Cafe’s days numbered

January 16, 2007 3:33 am

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| Charlestown Cafe | Development | West Seattle restaurants

Reader “The House” tells us the Design Review Board meeting for the project (described as a “one-story retail building”) proposed at the Charlestown Cafe site is coming up next week. The applications with the city say this architecture firm is involved. If you’ll recall, the P-I hinted this maybe possibly might be the mystery Trader Joe’s site, but we haven’t seen anything public about what’s planned for the project — should find out at this “early design guidance” meeting, if not sooner. (As for the Charlestown operators, one site visitor mentioned an unverified report they might have been seen checking out the Alki space next to Cactus; anybody got more on that?)

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