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City of Seattle ready to take on snow

by KING 5 News

KING5.com

Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:50 PM

Updated Tuesday, Jan 17 at 5:50 PM

Seattle's Mayor Mike McGinn spent most of Tuesday at the city's Emergency Operations Center, preparing for Wednesday's snow fall.

"If we get 10 inches of snow throughout the day, it's going to take some time to clear the roads," said McGinn.

Between 2-6 inches of snow is predicted to fall on Seattle over the course of Wednesday. Check the full forecast from the KING 5 meteorologists.

City crews are pretreating roads with a salt mixture to prevent ice from forming overnight. Main streets and routes to hospitals will be plowed as soon as snow begins to form on the road. Residential side streets are not plowed.

McGinn also stressed being a good neighbor in situations like these, checking on those who live around you and shoveling your sidewalk.

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Genki said on January 18, 2012 at 7:06 PM

As long as the mayor keeps his bike lanes salted and plowed, he'll give himself an A . All along NE 125th Street the only parts of the road without potholes are the newly created and never used bike lanes. Let's hope the next mayoral election brings us someone with an occasional good idea. It would be a huge improvement over what is happening now.

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gladimoved said on January 18, 2012 at 10:27 AM

Snow removal in Seattle is a joke! Was there about 15 years ago and it appeared there were only 5 plows available......heavy, wet snow caused multiple problems. Plows must have been hiding even after the snow stopped. Maybe it will not snow more than 2" and Seattle can handle that small amount.

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Daytrader said on January 18, 2012 at 9:33 AM

Isn't if funny how a good snow fall sends Seattle's Mayor running to the Emergency Operations Center, I wonder what brought that that reaction to light. :)

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jackwong said on January 17, 2012 at 10:38 PM

People need to just not drive tomorrow... Ride the bus.

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zaxxon7469 said on January 17, 2012 at 7:17 PM

Hey McScwin, now that you had a few days heads up Seattle better be ready, Nickols had no heads up and was booted. So far, theres more gup over city vs who maintain side walks, but in the end, I saw a lot of video of sliping and sliding on Most definatly city to have been maintained sidewalks. where were your snow shovel brigade then. Come thursday, i'm betting seatle going to give you a fail for preparedness too.

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benjitek said on January 17, 2012 at 7:01 PM

Geez... these newscasters need to take a class on reporting. She repeatedly asked the poor guy the same questions over and over. This 6 minute-plus repetitive interview could've been done much better in a minute and a half...

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jonjuan said on January 17, 2012 at 6:40 PM

You bet they are McGinn your broke. Get that plow mounted on your Schwin and leave for work at midnigth.

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