Results tagged “safe”

We woke up to a beautiful crunchy layer of snow blanketing the neighborhood and a couple email alerts telling us that the Seattle School District has declared a second snow day. Wahoo! We hope everyone stays safe and warm today, and that everyone is fully stocked with entertaining books, movies and websites for the duration. Here's a story about a man who plans to install a video camera in his head.

Apologies for the lack of a Roundup yesterday. There was this little obscure music and arts festival going on in town this weekend. Plus, it was Labor Day--so we abstained from work to show solidarity with the proletariat. Now for your regularly scheduled neighborhood news.

Though the Alaskan Way Viaduct continues to sink—or, as the engineers like to call it, "settle"—a section of the Alaskan Way Viaduct has been declared safe. Preliminary results from the semi-annual inspection that closed the viaduct last weekend show that a section of the bridge between Columbia and Yesler St. has settled an additional 3/8th of an inch. The settling is visible in four columns that support the viaduct.