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Listened to the freezing rain for a good long while this morning, before it hit me:
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“Have decided that the freezing rain sound is most akin to the sound Rice Krispies make after milk is poured on them.
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“I wait to have those after lunch. RT @annsy5 Or maybe the sound Pop Rocks make in your mouth?
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Not a snow plow to be seen anywhere in NE Seattle this morning…
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“Proof that NE 65th St has seen no recent snowplow love. RT @ravennabryant: I’m sorry, this is an arterial? t.co/SL2yAyb2
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…but local arterials roads saw plenty of action in the evening:
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“Another sighting! #unicorn RT @scottchampion: Hark! I a snow plow driving down 25th! So they *do* plow the streets. t.co/BPETqJPE
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KIRO 7 Meteorologist Morgan Palmer visited the neighborhood in the morning for a live shot:
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“A wintry scene in Ravenna. Live shortly on @kiro7seattle t.co/z6edNGwC
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Southern Ravenna resident Steve Sorbo did a walkabout for us, and sent back a slew of reports:
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“#uw students walking home with groceries and a half rack of PBR #WAsnow #essentials
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“Near where woman landed on her head yesterday. RT @macsosguy: t.co/fyImXr99 – Sledding on NE 54th St. #WAsnow
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“Cowen prk/Ravenna park I’d packed. #wasnow #sleddersparadise t.co/qzD8C7mJ
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“Hazard pay coming. RT @macsosguy: t.co/EIx1bEdv – Yours truly sledding. Hand held cam. what I will do for @ravennablog #wasnow
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Lots of nordic skiers out and about:
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“Forza’s coffee company on 25th Ave NE. Seattle has become Whistler BC! #wasnow t.co/HPsMNmf1
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“NICELY DONE. RT @ravennabryant: Skiing on in to Top Pot to get my 1/2 priced donuts! t.co/dCvY6DxF
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Mr. Ravenna Blog, our pedestrian commute reporter, took some photos during his walk up from the University District this afternoon:
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A few other assorted photos from Ravenna and Cowen Parks, and Ravenna Blvd:
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“Kitty?! It ATE someone! MT @itsajenism: Found a snow kitty someone made! t.co/GgFoGWhc
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“Caught some air there! RT @Hireling: Weeeeeeee! t.co/R4PTWm1d
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And some odds and ends:
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“She took pictures outside, so we can stay inside. Thanks! RT @RavennaGirlB: {posty!} Seattle snow day! t.co/eNf6J2gt #snomg
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“Ravenna Craigslist Special One-Off Winter Edition – Free Snow (Washington State): t.co/nE02AB65
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“bloody hell it is still just pooping down snow here at the convergence zone of the 98105/98115 #seasnow #seaice
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“@RavennaBlog @Roosiehood The Atlantic Crossing has a suggestion about drinks: t.co/8ggfzvJN (channeling Hyperbole and a Half).
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“University of Washington’s crew team practices despite snow storm – via @UWHuskyCrew t.co/YnS9T6eK
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Ravenna snow picture post! (UPDATES)
January 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
My favorite thing about snow falling is how it makes the neighborhood look — which calls for a picture post!
Sunday
Adam Merrill sent us "Snowman-Henge" from the Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center playfield.
Joel Magalnick caught the Snowman-Henge makers in action.
Saturday
Somebirdy out there has cold feet. (Ravenna Community Garden)
Snow on the ground? Swiss chard don
A Snow Family appears! This is 3/4 of the clan. Rock Head is the character on the far right. (7000 block of Ravenna Ave NE)
Patriarch of the Snow Family, Cowboy Bob.
Ben the Dog! Awww.
And this is Theo the Cat. I believe the red bit is the tail.
Normally located in the tropical rainforest belt of north Ravenna (7000 block of 23rd Ave NE), these two palm trees were unprepared for the sudden change of weather.
The palm trees
David Washington was
My neighbor
This guy looks a little cold.
Have any good shots of your own to share? We’d be happy to help show them off to the rest of the neighborhood here. Send them to rebecca@ravennablog.com, or link to them in the comments.
Merry Christmas, neighborhood. Please enjoy this Yule Log.
December 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Why release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when you’ve got YouTube?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MwrNBB9l2E&
Committee vote on the Roosevelt Rezone likely this Wednesday (LIVE COVERAGE)
December 13, 2011 by 1 Comment
UPDATE (1:57 PM): Today’s Committee on the Built Environment meeting footage has now been archived by the Seattle Channel, and we include it here.
UPDATE (12:18 PM): The Councilmembers present at today’s meeting of the Committee on the Built Environment have voted to move the Roosevelt Rezone (with the 65-foot-heights on the blocks just south of Roosevelt High School) forward to a full council vote. Full council vote likely to take place on January 17, 2012.
For more details about the vote and today’s COBE meeting in general, read our archived coverage of the meeting below.
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Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 14, the Seattle City Council’s Committee on the Built Environment meets to discuss and possibly vote on the Roosevelt Neighborhood Rezone (Council Bill 117379).
The meeting starts at 10:30 AM in the Council Chambers of City Hall (600 Fourth Avenue) with the Chair’s Report, then moves into 10 minutes* of public comment before the briefing on the bill begins.
We will be covering the event LIVE, right here, starting around 10:30 AM. Our notes will be archived here after the meeting, as well.
Recent Background Information
Just last week at another COBE meeting, the Committee discussed four different rough design options for the three blocks south of Roosevelt High School, before showing a preference (five of the eight councilmembers in attendance) for Option 2: A zoning designation of NC2-65 with over 25,000-square-feet of open space at street level.
You can download the entire design presentation by GGLO, “Development Standards for the High School Blocks,†in PDF format (5.03 MB) here.
An image of Option 2 from the GGLO design presentation. The view is from NE 65th Street, facing north toward the high school.
The next day, COBE Chair, Councilmember Sally Clark, summed up the rezone process so far and clarified her position on it on her blog.
Councilmember Bruce Harrell weighed in as well, on his personal blog. While he states his prefererence for design Option 2 at 65-feet, it was his “understanding that throughout the long process of neighborhood planning, the surrounding communities consistently made it clear that these three blocks should be protected from 65 foot heights.” Councilmember Harrell did not state specifically how he would vote, he did say that “[W]hat matters most to me…is that communities are ensured that their local government is truly listening to them when deciding how this city should look in the future.”
Then, today, a curve ball
Only yesterday, Publicola teased that Councilmember Nick Licata would be adding an amendment to the Roosevelt Neighborhood Rezone bill which would leave the three most contested blocks out of the rezone altogether. Today, Licata shared his position on the rezone on his Urban Politics blog.
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Burglar(s) along NE 65th Street shatter glass, take nothing (UPDATE)
December 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
UPDATE (Friday, December 9): Wedgwood Top Pot Doughnuts (6855 35th Ave NE) was hit the same night and in a similar fashion (door glass smashed in, store rifled through, little to nothing taken) as the other two break-ins, an employee of the store told us today. We were also told that the estimated cost to replace the broken, super-thick all-glass door is $3,000.
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The alarm at Bagel Oasis (2112 NE 65th St) was tripped Tuesday morning around 3 AM. When owner Peter Ryan arrived, the double-paned safety glass of one of his front doors was found scattered all the way to the bagel case at the other side of the store.
Someone had entered the store, but nothing was taken.
A couple doors down, at the Crepe Cafe (2118 NE 65th St), a pane of glass in the door was found broken, as someone had made an attempt to unlock the door from the outside.
But the door remained shut. And nothing was taken.
Cheryl Olmstead, general manager of the Crepe Cafe, didn’t seem too surprised by the burglary attempts. December turns out to be popular month to break into businesses in the area, she said, citing many examples.
But one specific Christmastime burglary attempt in particular stands out to Ryan: Five years ago, when he and his son arrived at his store to find the burglar still on the premises. They could give Phoenix Jones a run for his money, in our humble opinion.
Should anyone have information that leads “to the arrest of knucklehead who threw a rock through the front door and broke in last night,” Ryan is offering up free bagels per week for a year. Call the Seattle Police Department’s non-emergency line at: (206) 625-5011.
Ravenna’s Candy Cane Lane set to open December 10
December 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
We’ve heard from one of the homeowners on Candy Cane Lane (NE Park Rd) that their annual holiday light extravaganza is set to start on December 10 this year.
Looking festive now — Imagine what it will look like at night!
Here’s a story on the history of this annual neighborhood tradition from the Seattle Times last year.
Occupy-related vandalism hits Roosevelt U.S. Bank branch
November 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The U.S. Bank branch in the Roosevelt neighborhood (1023 NE 63rd St) was the target of Occupy movement-related vandalism in the early morning of Saturday, November 26.
Photo by Dominick DiGregorio/Roosevelt Neighborhood Blog. Used with permission.
Our friends over at Roosiehood have the story (and more pictures).
Should you need to access another U.S. Bank branch in our area, there are four others in Northeast Seattle. Click on the map for location information.
Happy Thanksgiving, Ravenna
November 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
We here at the Ravenna Blog would like to remind you of the importance of proper waste disposal during this holiday season.
Happy Thanksgiving.
See the future of North Link Light Rail construction, today!
November 23, 2011 by 1 Comment
Two really fun parts of the latest North Link Light Rail construction open houses for the Roosevelt and Brooklyn Stations are now available for viewing online: Illustrations of the construction sites themselves.
Enjoy!
These animations, and the presentations they were a part of, can be found on Sound Transit’s North Link Documents Library page.
Rally and march near Montlake, University Bridges this afternoon (updates)
November 17, 2011 by 1 Comment
This afternoon, the 99% are coming north of the cut.
A rally and march are planned for the University of Washington area, starting at 3:30 this afternoon.
From Working Washington’s facebook page for the event:
On November 17, people from across the area will converge at the functionally obsolete Montlake Bridge to demand our political leaders build bridges to good jobs, not make more cuts. This is part of a national day of action for jobs that’s happening in dozens of cities across the country.
The schedule of events today appears to be:
3:30 PM – Gathering at the grassy area just west of the intersection of Montlake & Pacific
4:00 PM – Rally
4:30 PM – March
One possible route the march could take we’ve gleaned from the website The Stand, a project of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO (WSLC) and its affiliated unions. The Stand describes the march route as starting near the Montlake Bridge, but ending at the University Bridge to the west, due to “safety concerns cited by the Seattle Police Dept.”
A call to the front desk at the North Precinct reveals no final march route plans in place at the time of this writing; however, the officer on the phone said “they’re having a big summit on it right now.”
Capitol Hill Seattle echoes the march route move to the University Bridge, citing a Thursday Day of Action itinerary (at the bottom of the post).
UPDATE (12:14 PM): The Seattle Times’ Today File confirms the move to march to the University Bridge instead of to Montlake, citing the information on The Stand’s website that we mentioned earlier.
View November 17th rally and march in a larger map
UPDATE (12:21 PM): The Seattle Department of Transportation has sent out the following traffic advisory (via email):
SEATTLE An Occupy Seattle rally and march today has the potential for creating major delays on all arterials leading to and from Ship Canal bridges during the afternoon commute.
The rally is scheduled to take place between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. on the University of Washington campus and then is expected to march west on NE Pacific Street to the University Bridge at roughly 4:30 p.m. The demonstrators plan to block the bridge during the afternoon rush hour so their presence will likely cause traffic delays throughout the afternoon commute until after 6:30 or 7 p.m. Demonstrators may also block the Montlake Bridge during that timeframe.
Seattle Police Officers will be on hand to minimize traffic congestion but the blockage of any one bridge could impact other nearby Ship Canal bridges. Commuters should allow additional time for detouring to another route. Motorists who must get to the University or Children’s hospitals should plan for extra time to reach their destination.
The protests could be very disruptive to transit service this afternoon. For information or questions about transit service, please call Metro Transit customer service at 206-553-3000, and sign up to receive Transit Alerts at www.kingcounty.gov/metro/alerts.
UPDATE (2:44 PM): The Seattle Department of Transportation has a network of traffic webcams across the city, and there just happens to be one at Montlake Blvd NE @ NE Pacific St (first picture revealed after you click the camera indicated by the picture below).
This rally and march is part of a larger “Mass Day of Action” planned for today, with events happening all around the country.
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