Oh, fun....

[jenk]

If you are not familiar with Washington State geography, here's a quick synopsis: Seattle is the center of my universe, sitting in the middle of the I-5 corridor that runs from Oregon to BC. To the west is Puget Sound, the Olympic Peninsula, and the Pacific; to the east is the Cascade Mountain range.

We are also having lots of precipitation. LOTS of precipitation. FLOODING precipitation. As WSDOT put it last night, "There are no north south routes available between Seattle and Portland, or east west routes from Western WA to Spokane at this time."

Short form? Ground transportation to / from Seattle royally sucks right now.

Why am I explaining all this? Well, The Stranger, one of Seattle's weeklies, is printed in Yakima ... which is on the other side of the Cascade mountains. From their blog:

Since it's printed in Yakima, a semi truck filled with tens of thousands of copies of The Stranger is sitting on the other side of the 10-feet-deep body of water that used to be known as I-5. We tried Snoqualmie Pass first (closed due to avalanche conditions). We tried White Pass (closed to mudslide). We tried air freight. We tried water. We tried throwing the phone at the wall and screaming at everyone the publisher could find at four in the morning.

But all is not lost: Today we reprinted the issue at the Seattle Times printing facility in Kent (no joke) and it will be on streets this afternoon.

Enjoy this week's paper. It was very expensive.

I'm not saying it's a collector's edition, but daymn.

In related news, I'm glad jw1776 got milk this morning.

ETA: Stevens Pass is open now. Not that there's any guarantee it'll stay open...