The view as of 11a — Live Capitol Hill Traffic Cams
With a peculiar “dry ice” fog wafting above the thawing streets of the neighborhood, Capitol Hill has crawled above freezing and is dripping its way toward getting back to normal. You’ll find the main arteries of 23rd and Madison well cleared. Broadway has seen most of its icy snow pushed aside though street crossing is a slushy mess.
The city has even found time to send the plow trucks along some of the more significant north/south corridors like 12th, 15th and 19th as well as clearing E Olive Way and John up the Hill and both Pike and Pine. Areas like I-5 shores above Melrose and residential areas like the area around Stevens Elementary have been left to Mother Nature so far. She’s slow. Be patient. And watch your step.
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Many modes (Image: CHS)
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Live view of Broadway/Roy — All Cams
Live view of Broadway/Pike — All Cams
Live view of Boren/Madison — All Cams
- Side streets: Expect to find icy and rough roads on secondary streets in the neighborhood. Side streets are mostly untouched and very difficult for driving.
- Public schools are again closed on Friday and most others have followed suit including Seattle U.
- Sidewalks: Things remain slushy and sometimes slippery — watch out for metal grates and covers.
- Driving: The arteries and main routes like Broadway are cleared if a little slushy. Capitol Hill’s side streets won’t improve for hours and most aren’t likely to receive any attention from SDOT. Seattle Police have been running assessment checks on problem areas throughout the city. We’ll try to add updates here as they come in. One recent report: Aloha at 23rd — westbound has been traveled and is passable but eastbound is still too dangerous to drive.
- Power: No significant issues — though a series of automatic fire alarms around 6:30a coincided with a prolonged flicker for some on the Hill. Hopefully the tree branches continue to comply.
- Cliff Mass: Says we’re done with this one. But watch out for next week: “the forecast models for the next week indicate some intense weather in store for us. Heavy rains, strong windstorms, and the arrival of frigid arctic air”
- Last night: Pretty darned quiet. SPD was dispatched to a handful of noise disturbance complaints related to sledding and there were, again, a few sledding-related medical callouts but mostly the Hill just chilled.
- Sea-Tac: Back to normal, says Seattle Times
- Garbage and recycling:
No word on catch-up plan yet.. Still no residential service but some commercial pick-ups will happen today. Friday pick-up customers will be served Saturday with all commercial customers not yet handled caught up with on Sunday. For the rest of us, “missed customers will be allowed to set out double their normal amount of garbage, recycling and yard waste at no additional charge” on their next regular pick-up day.
- We broadcast information frequently via Twitter so check out the @jseattle stream for information.
- The CHS Capitol Hill traffic cam page is here
- PDF maps of priority snow routes for the city are here.
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A slushy scene from Thursday on Broadway. Expect more slushy adventure today. More Thursday pictures here (Image: CHS)
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So much soup. To celebrate National Soup Swap Day — started right here in our neighbor neighborhood, the Central District — a group of soup enthusiasts gathered at 11th Ave’s Vermillion Saturday night to tell the tale of their soups and trade delicious-sounding creations with their new friends and neighbors. One thing was clear — this group loved soup. Four hours of onion preparation for the French onion? Dedication. We’ll gather the CHS tribe again soon but we can’t ever guarantee this level of passion again. Start planning for CHS Soup Swap 2013 now.
