{"id":136,"date":"2007-10-19T15:57:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T22:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=136"},"modified":"2007-10-19T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T22:57:26","slug":"aw-hail-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Aw, hail\u2014stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering around the neighborhood this afternoon, I noticed a number of \u201cbad thing indicator\u201d lights flashing near the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/transportation\/bridges.htm#ballard\">Ballard Bridge<\/a><\/strong>. And absolutely no traffic going onto or coming off of the bridge. I asked a local businessdude if he knew what was going on. He replied, \u201cNo, but it&#8217;s been this way for a couple of hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[album:266,0:c]<\/p>\n<p>Back home, I hopped on the Internet to research the situation. What happened? The bridge opened at about 12:45 this afternoon to allow shipping traffic to continue up and\/or down the canal. And got <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/transportation\/336144_bridge20.html?source=rss\">stuck<\/a><\/strong>. (Thank you, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/\">Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/a><\/strong>, via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cm.my.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo!<\/a><\/strong> News-Local.) This happens occasionally though, in my experience, not for such a long time.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw it around 2:45, it didn&#8217;t look like the bridge decks were stuck in the \u201cup\u201d position. Maybe the bridge closed only mostly\u2014not all of\u2014the way, or maybe it wasn&#8217;t fully or reliably operational when I was there.<\/p>\n<p>I thought maybe there had been an accident on the bridge following a brief but intense hail storm around noon:30. The hail was the size of peas. I live on the top (fourth) floor of my apartment building, and with the hail hitting the roof and my stove vent pipe, it was <em>noisy<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:1586:l][thumb:1587:l]<\/p>\n<p>(Second photo: Popcorn kernel on the left, for size comparison.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering around the neighborhood this afternoon, I noticed a number of \u201cbad thing indicator\u201d lights flashing near the Ballard Bridge. And absolutely no traffic going onto or coming off of the bridge. I asked a local businessdude if he knew what was going on. He replied, \u201cNo, but it&#8217;s been this way for a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}