WEATHER PANIC EMERGENCY!!!

[rwx]

While I was waiting for the bus to take me home tonight, I witnessed my first WEATHER PANIC EMERGENCY!!! of the season. A bus driver was going the wrong way (for that route) down 15th ave, made a sharp turn onto campus parkway that pulled it's catenary system off the wires in the middle of the intersection.

The driver jumps out, says in a panicked voice 'Montlake is closed, if you want to get to capitol hill, get on this bus now' to people at my bus stop (which was about 15' from these proceedings) and then runs to fix the catenary wires. She gets in the bus, and then takes off with a sudden jerk.

So, the next bus coming down the street in the right direction is also a 43, so I ask the driver whether they're rerouted and she looks at me like I'm crazy. She trolleyed off into the distance, and didn't come back in the time it took my bus to come (about 15 minutes longer than the round trip would have taken her), so I assume that the first bus driver was just suffering from panic.

Comments

[tanjent.livejournal.com]

she was panicking over the weather?

is it snowing there or something?

-tanjent

[wendolen.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to snow, maybe.

[mediavore.livejournal.com]

I had a very similar experience on the way home today. I was waiting for #4n (whatever came first on the trip to the hill), and a bus that reads "Broadway, University Dist" comes crashing to a halt at the stop at 15th and Campus. Big guy gets out to put the wires back on the trolley lines, yelling "just clime aboard!" and waves at everyone to get their butts on board while he tends to the bus. I do, but everyone else looks afraid to get on.

It was a calamity express #4n bus (never did display a number), and a perfect end to a haphazard day.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

It's now snowing in Tacoma and my office fronts on a small arterial.

I expect WEATHER PANIC EMERGENCY!!one! any second now.