December 19.
The day after a big snow.
And a huge freeze.

It was SO ICY....
That two buses went screaming down THOMAS street, which is the road my apartment faces. One block west of where I live there's a guard rail which overhangs the interstate: I-5 is thirty feet below.

So that's what two busloads of kids had to deal with as their out of control motorcoaches went plummeting down impassably icy roads toward the freeway. Luckily the guard rails did their job!


The above photo is from a DOT camera in Seattle. I had been told in no uncertain terms that I needed to be AT WORK this day. So I traveled to the pass, begrudgingly. Around 3ish I logged on to see what mayhem awaited me at home, and just HAPPENED to click on THIS very camera which showed me MUCH MORE than I'd bargained for!

I gasped as I saw the buses HANGING OVER I-5! NOT NORMAL! My boss happened to be walking by at the moment and I called her over:

"Teri! THIS is the street that leads to my HOUSE!" I said.

Nothing could have been truer!

When I got home, there was a news helicopter in the sky getting the bus rescue on video. Two tow trucks were trying to haul the motorcoaches off the guardrail and away from their precarious hanging situation. (The kids onboard had jumped out of the emergency exits at the back of the buses - a few were taken to a hospital but with very minor injuries.) THANK GOODNESS, eh?

Here's a shot I snapped that night.



Dumb me, I stayed behind the police tape at the intersection! I should have gone around the block like many others did to get up-close-and-personal with the rescuers. But I'm a rule-abider, by and large.

Right.

Anyhoo, I was SUPER HAPPY that the cops stayed to see the whole rescue mission through. It was great having police presence right there next to the park - it kept the drunken revelers and spontaneous snowboarding mid-night-jib-fests to a minimum that evening so I was able to get some rest!

((the one downfall of Apartment G-spot is that it's really close to a park on a really fun clubby hill, grr))

SO noise can be an issue. But let's not complain, eh? Let's focus on the love we have for law enforcement hanging around the park at night!


There MAY be come incomprehensible verbiage in this post. But whatevah! I've been doing data entry all darn day and I'm FRIED!

Happy Boxing Day, people.