Wide open spaces will cease to exist on Friday. Please schedule your emergencies accordingly.
Wide open spaces will cease to exist on Friday. Please schedule your emergencies accordingly. Nigel Killeen/Getty Images

Three dead after crabbing vessel capsizes: The vessel, the Mary B. II, overturned Tuesday night near Newport, Oregon. There were 12 to 14-foot waves. The Coast Guard tried to rescue the men, but all three onboard died.

Viaduct closure will slow emergency response times: If you're planning on calling 911 anytime soon, do it before Friday at 10 p.m. or three weeks from then. Okay? Good. If you can't pencil in your emergencies then be aware that emergency vehicles will also be impeded by The Period of Maximum Constraint (aka traffic and lots of it). The Fire Department and SDOT are trying to collab on making the response times "Not So Bad" but it's really a "Wait And See" kind of deal.

It's positively spitting outside:


While you're waxing poetic about the Viaduct, here's this: Seattle Curbed brought this video back to Seattle's attention Tuesday. It's the death and destruction, fire and blood, that the Alaskan Way Viaduct would cause in the event of an earthquake:

The only post office in the Central District is closing its doors: The post office on 23rd and Union is closing up shop on Saturday. Its lease was terminated to make room for a new development. There's no post office east of Broadway now. The Central District is quickly becoming a service desert. The post office will supposedly return to its old location once construction is done. But how long can that take? Seriously, fill me in. Also, if you're pissed about it, email me.

Someone is spreading misinformation about immigrant business owners in SeaTac: This spreadsheet, created by a user who goes by "jellybeanjen," claims that SeaTac business owners aren't paying their taxes. The majority of these businesses are run by East African Muslim immigrants. Jellybeanjen used her phony spreadsheet to assert that SeaTac city council's vote to redevelop the SeaTac Market and displace all the immigrant-run businesses is a good move. Rich Smith fact-checked jellybeanjen's spreadsheet. It's all a bunch of horse shit.

Someone leaked Jeff Bezos's OKCupid profile! This hot, steaming scoop is totally fake juicy. Bezos likes to spend his time training his kids in hand-to-hand combat and is trying to get his body fat down to 5 percent. Maybe you'll match with him! UPDATE: It seems Bezos is dating a Good Day L.A. anchor. Sorry, you blew your shot.

That Seattle man accused of killing his brother with a sword was a Proud Boy: Timothy wrote this in Slog AM this morning: "The 26-year-old man who prosecutors believe suffers from mental illness, told the 911 dispatcher that God told him his brother was a lizard and to kill him." New information shows that Seattle man has ties to the far-right Proud Boy group, it turns out, and also buys into the weirdly-popular QAnon conspiracy theory that "that Trump is engaged in a shadowy war against a secret cabal of pedophilic global elites in the Democratic Party." (Thank you, Daily Beast for that concise wording.)

Meanwhile, Trump is holding FEMA funding hostage for victims of the California wildfires: Don't you love feeling safe and protected in your country?

Lynnwood woman goes on homophobic tirade in nail salon: She was reportedly FaceTiming without headphones while in public at a nail salon. A patron asked her to stop and she blew up. Not literally, but she does turn quite red. At the end, she calls the man a homophobic slur and then tells him to "eat her pussy" when she leaves in a huff. Confusing.

We're flying blind, lads: The Food and Drug Administration has stopped doing all routine food facility inspections while the government is shutdown. Well. That's no good. The riskier places that deal with the likes of seafood and cheese will still get inspected somehow, according to the FDA. This is great news for all your questionably-sanitary Ave favorites in the U District! Bad news for toilet bowls and intestines, however.

Here we go again:


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