Comments on: There’s no sun up in the sky

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:13:58 +0000

Just as I was getting in my car to go to the office, one of my co-workers called to tell me the Richmond Bridge was closed, so I was spared the mistake of trying to get across it. About three seconds after he hung up, a tree branch the diameter of my thigh hit the ground about fifteen feet in front of me.

I figured that was as good a sign as any that I should go back to bed.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:47:29 +0000

Ouch.

And I always heard people say San Francisco was full of homeowners.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:47:43 +0000

Chuck and Cory:
The biggest difference between Seattle and Bay area windstorms is that in Seattle they actually affect home owners, with the key word being “owner”.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:45:56 +0000

Also, California isn’t built for storms, so when a big one one shows up every couple of years, it really screws things up a lot more than areas where that sort of thing is a bit more commonplace. There’s all sorts of metal bits ripped off of the side of the office, strewn around the bushes, and hanging down from the roof like that super-scary drainpipe that crashes through the window in Michael Meyers’ house in Halloween. I imagine in other, more storm-ridden places, people actually have to consider things like rating their buildings against low-end hurricane-grade winds. Nobody builds for that around here, and it occasionally bites us in the ass.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:36:03 +0000

Doug: I must’ve been seeing the after-effects of that, then. Traffic was at a standstill all the way back to the Lucky Drive exit. Seeing those pictures of water coming up over the onramp to the Richmond Bridge made me extremely glad I wasn’t trying to come in from the east bay.

Cory: I realize that storms around Seattle are more severe, but in a way it’s worse here, seeing bad weather happen to a place where people actually want to live.

By: cory

cory — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:35:58 +0000

your California windstorm is a choirboy compared to the one that put Seattle in the dark for a week last year! Tell em Steve!….Steve?

By: tabacco

tabacco — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:54:49 +0000

You missed some of the fun in San Rafael, then. The reason 101 was closed was because lumber and other junk from the new overpass blew down onto the lanes. Then on top of that the Richmond bridge has been closed all day.

I had about the same story… I got as far as the civic center and had to *very slowly* get off the freeway and turn around to go home.