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Seattle Is Full of Morons...

Starship Coyote

Starship Coyote

Original Gangster!
... and fail too.

Isn't that where Hambil lives?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008551284_snowcleanup23m.html

To hear the city's spin, Seattle's road crews are making "great progress" in clearing the ice-caked streets.But it turns out "plowed streets" in Seattle actually means "snow-packed," as in there's snow and ice left on major arterials by design."We're trying to create a hard-packed surface," said Alex Wiggins, chief of staff for the Seattle Department of Transportation. "It doesn't look like anything you'd find in Chicago or New York."
The city's approach means crews clear the roads enough for all-wheel and four-wheel-drive vehicles, or those with front-wheel drive cars as long as they are using chains, Wiggins said.
The icy streets are the result of Seattle's refusal to use salt, an effective ice-buster used by the state Department of Transportation and cities accustomed to dealing with heavy winter snows.
"If we were using salt, you'd see patches of bare road because salt is very effective," Wiggins said. "We decided not to utilize salt because it's not a healthy addition to Puget Sound."
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Last time I heard, Puget Sound was full of salt water.
 
Yes. Seattle is full of Morons.


Although... I do like the idea of there being a Chief Wiggins. :lol:
 
Chief Wiggum? GTFO. Get down here to Portland. Shit, I'll drive you through my old neighborhood. It's where Matt Groenig got half the names for the characters: Quimby, Lovejoy, Burns[ide], Flanders...

[Oh, and you know how I've been waiting on wheels for my car? They were supposed to be coming from Florida and were going to get here on Friday? I don't know why they didn't get here Friday, but the main east-west road, I-84 has been closed since Saturday. They only just got it reopened last night, so there's a huge backlog of truckers on it. The news said they had to battle 74 mph winds. :wtf: And it's been snowing since last night. We've got another 4" (and growing) down here in the valley. I don't wanna know what they've got up in the passes. :calli: ]
 
I was driving through on I-5 last night. From Salem to Portland took hours upon hours, absolutely awful traffic on that stretch with no exits. I rewarded myself with a Voodoo Dozen upon breaking through. :D
 
I have three favorite strip-joints in Portland:

-The Acropolis Steakhouse, where you can have an amazing steak for something like 6 bucks--while enjoying an interpretive dance performence.
-Union Jacks. I just like the name and the style of the place. And they tend to favor the "Suicide Girl" look in their dancers.
-On the other end of the spectrum from the 'Crop (and exactly the other end of town) is Club Diablo. It is a vegan strip-joint. The bartender, who I was flirting with, forced me to try the vegan chili and as morally reprehensible as the concept that no animals suffered, let alone died, for my meal, the shit was good. And the couch dances, while expensive, are proportionally filthy.
 
Volpone said:
I have three favorite strip-joints in Portland:

-The Acropolis Steakhouse, where you can have an amazing steak for something like 6 bucks--while enjoying an interpretive dance performence.
-Union Jacks. I just like the name and the style of the place. And they tend to favor the "Suicide Girl" look in their dancers.
-On the other end of the spectrum from the 'Crop (and exactly the other end of town) is Club Diablo. It is a vegan strip-joint. The bartender, who I was flirting with, forced me to try the vegan chili and as morally reprehensible as the concept that no animals suffered, let alone died, for my meal, the shit was good. And the couch dances, while expensive, are proportionally filthy.
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I think I actually went to all of those in my Bachelor Weekend. Although after about 6 hours it all gets pretty hazy. Up until the point where I was sitting on the curb with a case of Coors while everyone else went to get whores. I remember that. :/
 
You know what's also bad for the environment? Oils leaks on the road and totalled cars when they crash after slipping on the ice.

Fucking maniacs.
 
Every time I saw this thread title, I'm thinking it read full of Mormons.

So no one in Western Nebraska ever salted roads, we all learned to drive on snow packed surfaces. Of course we all used chains and snowtires had metal studs.

;)
mm
 
The one good thing I remember about Nebraska is that it has straight, flat highways with fairly high speed limits, allowing you to get in and out of the state as quickly as possible.
 
Oh, and if we do a meet-up on Sunday, I'm really hoping the 5 is clear and dry. I drove the car with chains on two days ago (just across town) and: 1) it makes a scary noise if you get above 50 mph and 2) even though I came home on secondary streets (instead of the freeway), when I got out of the car there was a noticeable smell of burnt rubber coming from the drive wheels, so I'm sure the chains aren't doing the tires any favors.
 
Volpone said:
Oh, and if we do a meet-up on Sunday, I'm really hoping the 5 is clear and dry. I drove the car with chains on two days ago (just across town) and: 1) it makes a scary noise if you get above 50 mph and 2) even though I came home on secondary streets (instead of the freeway), when I got out of the car there was a noticeable smell of burnt rubber coming from the drive wheels, so I'm sure the chains aren't doing the tires any favors.
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Uh.... yeah... THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T DRIVE THEM OVER 35MPH!
 
What? They didn't come with instructions.

When I first came here I was going up to Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in a blizzard, driving Avenger. Nobody uses chains in Wisconsin. Of course there are no mountains in Wisconsin. So you get to the summit of the main road and to get to Timberline, there's a shitty little side road that goes up at an angle public roads don't go (except maybe in San Francisco. And there they're never covered with snow). I was still OK with this and churning along, actually having my winter driving skills challenged, and I hit the last stretch. On the way to the parking lot, the road splits into a one lane circuit, and the grade doubles in angle again. I made it about halfway up it before the car finally stopped. The road was just too steep and slippery. No amount of driving skill could get the car past a certain point.

Just about then a pickup truck full of high school kids piled out and offered to help. They had a spare set of chains they loaned me and I was able to get the car moving again. I gave 'em 50 bucks for helping me (a tow truck would've been FAR more expensive and it was the right thing to do). When I gave them the money they gave me the chains. Given what a set of chains costs, I came out pretty good. And this week you couldn't get chains in the city of Portland for love OR money. The ones from Avenger were a pretty snug fit on Ghost, but I eventually got them on.
 
OH YOU'VE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!

OH YOU'VE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!!! It fucking SNOWED again last night!?!?:mad:

It NEVER snows in downtown Portland. Every 2-3 years you'll get a snow that actually sticks. So this fucking year it snowed for TWO STRAIGHT WEEKS.

Well, last weekend the weather finally broke. By Sunday warm weather and rain had totally taken care of the snow in the city and yesterday was positively pleasant, bordering on 50 degrees. So imagine my surprise to wake up this morning, set to finally have a productive day, only to find TWO FUCKING INCHES OF SNOW ON EVERYTHING. :evil:

This is just fucking inconceivable.
 
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