Husky Classic - weather forced changes

are th adjusting the schedule at all? hoping the ystill run the womens 3k, scheduled for 7:30

looks like they will run all of Fridays events I think, just earlier.

Coming from Alaska it blows by mind that they are cancelling an INDOOR met for 5 inches of snow......we don't even cancel outdoor practice for that.

"Due to expected inclement weather and a campus-wide shutdown, the Husky Classic meet planned for this Friday and Saturday in the Dempsey has had a significant schedule change. Saturday’s session will no longer be held and Friday’s session has been moved to the morning and will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude at 4 p.m."

To be fair Seattle rarely gets snow and almost never gets accumulation. The city is very hilly, they have NO snow plows, and almost no one knows how to drive in the snow. I was in Seattle once when they got about four inches of snow...it was amazing, I was the only person on the road in many places, and there were literally abandoned cars on the road. They just gave up and walked. It was astounding.

M.C. Confusing wrote:

To be fair Seattle rarely gets snow and almost never gets accumulation. The city is very hilly, they have NO snow plows, and almost no one knows how to drive in the snow. I was in Seattle once when they got about four inches of snow...it was amazing, I was the only person on the road in many places, and there were literally abandoned cars on the road. They just gave up and walked. It was astounding.

Definitely this. The roads and sidewalks literally turn to ice rinks because there is minimal plowing and everything just freezes. You literally can’t get around.

Runr34 wrote:

M.C. Confusing wrote:

To be fair Seattle rarely gets snow and almost never gets accumulation. The city is very hilly, they have NO snow plows, and almost no one knows how to drive in the snow. I was in Seattle once when they got about four inches of snow...it was amazing, I was the only person on the road in many places, and there were literally abandoned cars on the road. They just gave up and walked. It was astounding.

Definitely this. The roads and sidewalks literally turn to ice rinks because there is minimal plowing and everything just freezes. You literally can’t get around.

Contrary to outside belief, Seattle has about 35 snow plows, more than the enough considering the minimal snow - sometimes none in a year.

The nature of wet snow + borderline freezing temperatures creating ice + hills and hills = dangerous to drive at all.

If that means any of the mile/3k/5k events are cancelled there then it's good news for all of the runners competing at Iowa State! Usually over half the runners making NCAA's in those events from from one of those two meets. Opens the door for people that would've just missed. Although a lot of runners at this Husky Classic will be at the MPSF so that'll be their new attempt at an NCAA mark.

Sounds like nobody in Seattle knows how to deal with snow

In the mile heats what are they using for seeding. The original 2 fasted heats looked very similar speed wise - both fast. Now one is definitely faster. Some runners appear to be using real non-adjusted times. Some appear to be altitude adjusted times, and some appear to be outdoor 1500 times. Seeds should all be based on mile times with altitude adjustment just like it is for the National meet. After all these guys are running to qualify for Nationals.

3k and 5k will both be ran today, just at an earlier time. NCAA marks will still be hit.

PrZ wrote:

Sounds like nobody in Seattle knows how to deal with snow

Sounds like you'd be one of the idiots who'd try to drive on an icy hill and end up stranding their car or letting it drift into someone else's property.

There are very few places you can go here without encountering a significant hill.

There were a number of weather "models" out there, a couple of which predicted 20"to 24" of snow.

They cancelled finals at UW when I was there in 90-91, I think we got around 7 inches of snow.

For winter break I took the bus to the ferry terminal, which took a couple of hours because there were cars left in the middle of the road and actually most of the buses were unable to move.

My mother was too afraid to drive to pick me up from the ferry so I hitched a ride with someone I knew. They were afraid to drive me over the last hill to my house so left me at a convenience store about 3/4 a mile from my home. I hiked it in from there but actually partially fell in the ditch since you couldn't tell where the side of the road was.

Everybody just sucks at driving there. As soon as I got home I was running all over town in my mother's truck. As long as nobody else is on the road it is totally safe.

There are a few times when it's genuinely dangerous to drive there and the city in general errs massively on the side of caution.

Some girl died on campus from falling and hitting her head on ice. So the school is closing down til it’s gone.

On an unrelated note UW seems to prioritize their athletes who shouldn’t be in fast heats. Lots of athletes didn’t make the quicker heats cause their guys.

Slow Bro wrote:

PrZ wrote:

Sounds like nobody in Seattle knows how to deal with snow

Sounds like you'd be one of the idiots who'd try to drive on an icy hill and end up stranding their car or letting it drift into someone else's property.

There are very few places you can go here without encountering a significant hill.

^ Exactly this. Seattle isn't flat like the midwest and plows/salt trucks are very rare.

She died from a blood clot in her lung, not from the fall.

Stanford track team's bus caught on fire on the way.

https://www.king5.com/video/news/local/stanford-track-team-talks-about-escaping-charter-bus-fire-on-i-5/281-6985f35c-e425-4110-8783-cec8f956ffe3

Dr. DETROIT wrote:

Slow Bro wrote:

Sounds like you'd be one of the idiots who'd try to drive on an icy hill and end up stranding their car or letting it drift into someone else's property.

There are very few places you can go here without encountering a significant hill.

^ Exactly this. Seattle isn't flat like the midwest and plows/salt trucks are very rare.

People seem to have PTSD from snowstorms past. Everyone at work freaked out when it started snowing 2 hours earlier than scheduled and it seemed like all of downtown was trying to leave at the same time. Of course, no buses were to be found. It took forever and now—the regular commute time—traffic is very light and it seems like there are buses every 10 mins. And the snow's paused and my grocery store's restocked.