#SeattleSnow #SeattleSnowpocalypse2019
#SeattleSnowmageddon2019 #recovery
#sharedShovel #Deaf #asl #accessibility
How to survive a Snowpocalypse—by blogging a
Snowpocalypse
Drip drip Drip. The meltout had already started last
night. By this morning, RantWoman’s window ledge and the large trees out her
window were both clear of snow.
Reprise of links to Mayor Durkan’s press events
yesterday and today.
Yesterday’s event had #ASL and #CDI interpretation.
Both yesterday’s and today’s events have captioning.
Yesterday:
Today:
There are good safety tips in both videos. Bless
everyone who has a shovel and used it for #sharedShovel events!
RantWoman had a festive morning of kitchen
scrubbing. Ith was cathartic even though one thing led to another and Rantwoman
did not get nearly as much done as she hoped.
RantWoman was excited to hear that buses were
starting out the day mostly on regular schedules but subject to change due to
conditions. Then reality set it: RantWoman usually goes to the U district on
Wednesday nights for something at her faith community. RantWoman usually gets a
ride home, but today her ride home was not planning to travel. That would leave
RantWoman trying to come home via either a walk on icy pathways to the 48 or
uncertainty about options at a closer stop.
Earth to RantWoman: just cancel it. Oh and while
making necessary phone calls, TRY not to be TOO much of a nag about property
owners and sidewalk right-of-way. No, sorry, Rantwoman will do the best she can
(which is pretty feeble right now) to be nice about it, but #accessibility-related
nags seem to be a current RantWoman calling.
RantWoman has needed some personal care products for
a few days. Today RantWoman remembered that the newish Bartell’s at 4th
and Jackson exactly satisfies RantWoman’s criteria about one easy street
crossing from store to coming home!
Off RantWoman went, in the latish afternoon. Inauspicious
moment: where did the gloves RantWoman bought the other day go? RantWoman gave one
pair to a neighbor whose mother needed gloves. The other pair was not in a coat
pocket but did turn up later in RantWoman’s purse.
Auspicious beginning: S Walker St. was mostly shoveled
though the curb ramps were a mess. About that time many people who work at
Lighthouse for the blind are getting off work and all piling onto buses headed
downtown. Some of the time when the “Courtesy Area” in the front of the bus
gets crowded, RantWoman cheerily declares that her feet work fine and finds a
place to stand further back in the bus. Under Snowpocalypse conditions, this
means the opportunity to remind all the good hearted souls who are out shoveling
out bus stops, the bus is 40 or 60’ long. It usually has 2 or three doors. If
you can, get crazy and shovel out the whole length of a bus so people getting
off in the back do not have to chance scary footing and plowed up slop.
RantWoman made it downtown. Sidewalks on the N side
of Jackson were mostly dry. Mostly, except for some unexplained piles of snow,
strategically located to remind RantWoman of the nag above about multiple
doors.
Purchasing needed personal care products was nothing
out of the ordinary except again for the downtown price premium. Whine.
RantWoman also bought a sandwich. RantWoman did not
realize until the caraway seeds filled her palate with joy that the sandwich
was on rye bread. Yum and a great break
from the food supplies at home.
Coming home? Bus or Light Rail? RantWoman opted for
Light rail. RantWoman waited three trains for one that was not SRO. Mount Baker
station had a nicely shoveled path along the N side of the building on Forest
St. And RantWoman timed it perfectly to catch the 9X one stop for the nicely
shoveled walk home. Nicely shoveled path with mush in the curb ramps; the good
news: there were tracks in the mush indicating that a wheelchair user or stroller
or shopping cart had been by.
RantWoman offers in a separate post, a photo album
of other “This is better than yesterday” moments from today’s travelogue including
scouting paths to and from another nearby bus stop. Rantwoman is glad she chose
the routing she did in spite of the downtown price premium..
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