Capitol Hill Streets Looking Less Like Paris 1968 (If The Students Had Used Trees For Blockades)

The inhabitants of the Bering on 14th Ave E and E Thomas were delighted to see the Seattle City Light truck roll up last night around 4:30pm. We know because we called one of them, and he was all, "Fuck yeah, I'm delighted. You can quote me."

But as you see from this picture we took this morning, these things take time. As Seattlest Seth has pointed out, the Seattle Times is covering the slow-moving story, and defending power companies from charges of Benigni neglect (that's where you pretend a terrible situation is actually funny for the sake of the kids until one day you just vanish and they grow up bitter, resentful orphans with unreal perspectives on how the world works). The P-I has this story pointing out that you shouldn't drive over downed power lines, which is the sort of thing you wouldn't think needed saying until you see people doing it and you wonder if maybe you'll finally get to submit something to the Darwin Awards.

After the jump, take a peek at the action at 13th Ave E and E John. Clearly, everyone loves watching work get done.