More thrown out of office then educable

Seattle salts its streets

Readers may recall three winters ago when I mocked and ridiculed the city of Seattle, Washington, for failing to salt its streets despite tons of snow clogging its streets. The whack-job liberals in charge of City Hall cited environmental reasons for not salting their streets.

My conservative readers from Seattle cheered me on.

From Alex Wiggins, chief of staff for the Seattle Department of Transportation, in December 2008: “If we were using salt, you’d see patches of bare road because salt is very effective. We decided not to utilize salt because it’s not a healthy addition to Puget Sound.”

The Puget Sound is a body of salt water.

From Alex Wiggins, chief of staff for the Seattle Department of Transportation, in December 2008: “we’re sensitive about everything we do that impacts the environment.”

No, they are not. They are dummies who do not know the first thing about the environment and fall for hoaxes about putting too much salt in the sea.

Instead of salt, Seattle used sand.

From Ann Williams, spokeswoman for Denver’s Department of Public Work, in December 2008: “We never use sand. Sand causes dust, and there’s also water-quality issues where it goes into streets and into our rivers.”

Nothing harms the environment more or quicker than a wrong-headed environmentalist.

After this fiasco, Seattle elected a new mayor. This winter, the wheel of meteorology has spun and landed, again, on the Pacific Northwest for a little more snow than is usual.

From KOMO:

In addition, some areas that got snow on Saturday woke up Sunday to find a layer of ice where slush hardened overnight in subfreezing temperatures.

Slick exit ramps and bridges were a problem throughout the region Sunday morning, and trucks were out dumping salt on trouble spots. But road crews were not making it to some residential streets and neighborhoods.

We should get a snow lull Sunday night into the first part of Monday as we go in between disturbances. But snow will increase again Monday afternoon as another wave of moisture moves through. This could bring another 1-3 inches of new snow in spots.

Showers linger into Tuesday morning but then the forecast gets really tricky. A stronger, wetter Pacific Storm will move in late Tuesday into Wednesday. Typically, this would make for a widespread rainy day around here but with the cold air in place, this will instead begin as snow for everyone for eventually changing to rain.

The liberals of Seattle may be idiots but they are educable.