WEATHER PANIC EMERGENCY!!!
Nov. 28th, 2005 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rwxWhile 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.
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.
