STEPHEN
STEPHEN WILL HAVE EYE ON THE ROADS FIRST. LET'S GET TO YOU, JORDAN.
ALL RIGHT.
SO THIS NOT AS ROUGH AS
YESTERDAY, RIGHT?
TELL US ABOUT TODAY.
YES, WE WILL STILL GET A LITTLE
BIT OF THAT SNOW TODAY BUT IT'S
NOT GOING TO BE ANYTHING LIKE
WE SAW YESTERDAY.
WE'RE ACTUALLY ALREADY A FEW
DEGREES WARMER THAN THIS TIME
YESTERDAY.
SO WE'RE GOING TO START SEEING
THAT WARMING TREND AS WE GO
INTO THE DAYS AHEAD WHICH WILL
HELP TO GET RID OF SOME
OF THIS.
HOWEVER, WE STILL HAVE ABOUT
ANOTHER DAY OF IT.
WE COULD PROBABLY SEE ABOUT ONE
TO THREE INCHES AT TIMES.
NOTICE THE COAST JUST GETTING
RAIN THEN AS IT PUSHES A LITTLE
FARTHER INLAND RAIN SNOW MIX
AND THEN THAT WHAT YOU'RE
SEEING IS SNOW.
SO THAT'S ACTUALLY PUSHING IN
PRETTY QUICKLY NOW THAT WE'VE
GOT THE MORNING STARTED FOR
YOU.
NOTICE THOUGH FOR FQHCS DEALING
WITH RAIN NOW AFTER SEEING THAT
RAIN SNOW MIX.
BUT SOME OF THE RAIN WE'RE
SEEING ALONG THE COAST COULD BE
VERY COLD, COULD EVEN SEE SOME
FREEZING RAIN.
SO DO BE CAREFUL STILL DRIVING
OUT THERE.
NOTICE THAT PINK THOUGH IS THE
RAIN SNOW MIX.
RAYMOND, YOU JUST SAW SOME
REGULAR RAIN AND EVERYONE ELSE
WILL START TO SEE SOME VERY,
VERY LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS.
SO IF YOU SNOWSHOWERS THIS
MORNING THEN TRANSITIONING TO A
RAIN SNOW MIX THIS AFTERNOON WE
COULD EVEN SEE SOME RAIN IN
PARTS OF THE AREA THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
BUT THE SHOWERS ARE GOING TO
CONTINUE OVERNIGHT SO WE COULD
WAKE UP TO ANOTHER RAIN SNOW
MIX TOMORROW WHICH IS GOING TO
MAKE FOR ANOTHER ICY COMMUTE.
SO PLAN AHEAD.
SPEAKING OF COMMUTE, YOU'RE NOT
PROBABLY COMMUTING RIGHT NOW
INTO THE SUN BUT HOW ARE THE
ROADS LOOKING RIGHT NOW IN CASE
SOMEONE HAS TO LEAVE?
AND JORDAN, YOU AND I WERE
TALKING A FEW MOMENTS AGO ABOUT
REMINDING PEOPLE TO WIPE THE
SNOW OFF THEIR CAR.
I MEAN YESTERDAY WE DID HAVE AN
ACCIDENT OCCUR BECAUSE THE SNOW
FELL IN THE WINDSHIELD.
SO JUST REMEMBER THAT AS YOU'RE
DRIVING OUT BECAUSE YOU DON'T
WANT IT TO FALL BEHIND THE
PERSON, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S
HARD ICE NOW TOO THAT COULD
CAUSE SOME DAMAGE.
SO JUST BE AWARE OF THAT.
WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF PROBLEMS
WE'RE WATCHING.
ONE OF THEM IS NORTHBOUND FIVE
NORTH OF NORTHGATE.
TAKE A LOOK OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW
AT THIS ONE.
YOU CAN SEE A COUPLE OF LANES
OF TRAFFIC ARE BLOCKED HERE AND
PEOPLE JUST GOING BY IT.
BUT THE ROAD CONDITIONS YOU
KNOW, WE DID HAVE THINGS
IMPROVE YESTERDAY AND THEN IT
REFROZE AGAIN RIGHT WHEN WE
WERE BELOW FREEZING THROUGHOUT
THE ENTIRE DAY.
BUT AS MORE AND MORE PEOPLE GOT
OUT OF THE ROADWAY, THE
ROADWAYS DID GET A LITTLE BIT
BETTER.
BUT CERTAINLY THIS MORNING WE
ARE SEEING MORE ISSUES WITH
THAT AND ICY AND SLUSHY
ROADWAYS.
THIS IS AN INCIDENT JUST OFF
THE FREEWAY I K5 AT PORT TACOMA
ROAD AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IT IS
SNOWING THERE.
HERE'S A LOOK AT HIGHWAY 18 AND
THE FIVE INTERCHANGE.
SO YEAH, THE ROADWAYS CERTAINLY
YOU CAN DRIVE ON THEM AND
YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO
FINE.
FINE. BUT
FINE. BUT WE JUST WANT YOU TO BE AWARE THAT THERE ARE GOING TO
BE SOME ICY CONDITIONS OUT
THERE FOR SURE AT LEAST UNTIL
MORE AND MORE PEOPLE GET OUT ON
THE ROADWAYS AS WE INTO BACK TO
YOU GUYS.
NO DOUBT.
ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU, STEPHEN.
A LIVE LOOK BEHIND THE WHEEL AT
STORMKING NOW AS WE GET YOU
THROUGH TO COME UP LIVE
CONDITIONS HERE NEAR SPRAGUE
AVENUE AS WE STOP AND GO
THROUGH SOME OF THE SIDE
STREETS.
THIS IS A NEIGHBORHOOD STREET.
IT'S NOT A MAJOR ARTERIAL
EITHER BUT IT'S ONE OF THOSE
SORT OF MEDIUM ROADS WHERE YOU
HAVE ONE SIDE OPEN AND MAYBE
PLOWS WILL GET A SECOND LANE
OPEN TODAY.
IT COULD BE IN SPOTS DEFINITELY
ICE POTENTIAL.
SO GO SLOW OUT THERE TODAY NO
DOUBT DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU
LIVE, YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD MAY BE
FULL OF RUTS AND SNOW.
YEAH, IT MUST BE TOUGH FOR YOU
CARS LIKE SWEET LIUNA TO GET
THROUGH THE SNOW IF YOU HAVE NO
IDEA WHAT WE'RE TALKING WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT LIONEL DONOVAN'S
CAR WHICH GOT STUCK YESTERDAY.
IF YOU'RE WATCHING OUR
COVERAGE, IT WAS QUITE THE
ADVENTURE THAT WE FOLLOWED
ALONG AND WONDERING HOW LUNA
DID WITH THE CONDITIONS THIS
MORNING WITH THE KIND OF THE
CRUNCHY SNOW LIONEL?
WELL, WE ALL MADE SURE TO DO
WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT SHE
STAYED ON THESE MAIN ROADS
RIGHT HERE.
BUT ANY TIME I SAW A BIT
OF BUILDUP I WAS NOT GOING TO
PUT HER THROUGH THAT JUST LIKE
WE'RE GOING TO STOP RIGHT HERE
AND I WILL GET OUT.
YOU REST BECAUSE YOU'VE CLEARLY
HAVE HAD A LONG DAY AND SO AS
WE'RE SEEING NOW RIGHT ALONG
UNION AVENUE, THIS ROAD HAS
BEEN CLEARED UP AND WE ARE
STARTING TO SEE MORE PEOPLE ON
THE ROAD.
BUT THE SAME THING THAT WE'VE
BEEN TALKING ABOUT EARLIER IF
YOU LOOK RIGHT UP HERE ON SOUTH
TWENTY THIRD STREET WE SEE THIS
ROAD THAT'S JUST JUST NOT
PLOWED AT THE MOMENT.
SO ANYONE LIVING LIVING ALONG
THIS ROAD IS GOING TO HAVE A
TOUGH TIME MAKING IT TO THIS TO
UNION AVENUE.
THIS IS THE SAME STORY THAT
WE'RE PROBABLY SEEING ON A LOT
OF RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND SIDE
STREETS THAT HAVING DIFFICULTY
MAKING TO THESE MAIN ARTERIAL
ROADS IN THESE MAIN ROADWAYS
HERE IN TACOMA.
NOW WE DID SEE A PLOW TRYING TO
TRY TO CLEAR SOME OF THIS ROAD,
TRYING TO CLEAR SOME OF THESE
SIDE STREETS AND SOME OF THE
SNOW AND MOVE SOME OF THAT
BUILDUP OUT OF THE WAY.
BUT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT
OF WORK TO DO.
WE HAVE ONE CAR TRYING TO MAKE
IT AND HOPEFULLY ARE THEY GOING
TO BE ABLE TO MAKE IT ALL THE
WAY UP?
I HOPE SO.
I HOPE THEY GOT ENOUGH MOMENTUM
TO MAKE IT ALL THE WAY UP THAT
HILL BUT THAT YOU ARE GOING TO
BE GOING ON IF YOU ARE GOING TO
BE TRAVELING TODAY, IF YOU HAVE
ANYTHING THAT YOU NEED TO PICK
UP.
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT A LOT
OF THE SIDE STREETS AND
RESIDENTIAL AREAS HAVE NOT BEEN
PLOWED.
THOSE ROADS ARE STILL
COVERED WITH SNOW AND SO IF YOU
DO PLAN ON MAKING ANY ERRANDS,
TRY TO STICK TO THOSE MAIN
ROADS BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE
YOU'LL HAVE THE BEST LUCK WHEN
IT COMES TO TRAVELING.
YEAH, WE MENTIONED AS WE WERE
WATCHING THAT CAR, LIONEL,
THERE'S SOME SNOW ON TOP
OF THESE CARS THAT ARE MOVING
AROUND AND THAT COULD ACTUALLY
BE REALLY DANGEROUS TO THE CAR
BEHIND THEM.
SO YEAH, YOU'VE GOT SNOW ON
YOUR CAR.
BRUSH IT OFF BEFORE YOU HIT THE
ROAD FOR THE SAFETY OF THOSE
AROUND YOU.
ALL RIGHT, LIONEL, THANKS VERY
MUCH.
THANKS FOR SHOWING US WHAT IT'S
LIKE IN TACOMA.
LET'S GET YOU NOW TO THE
EASTIDE WHERE WE ARE SEEING THE
MAJOR ROADS IN BELLEVUE PRETTY
WELL PLOWED.
NOT BAD BELLEVUEWA SIDE STREETS
ARE A DIFFERENT STORY THOUGH.
I LOOK AT THIS.
THIS IS PROBABLY WHAT YOU'RE
SEEING IN MOST OF THE
NEIGHBORHOODS AROUND WESTERN
WASHINGTON WHERE THIS YEAH.
I MEAN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
JUST DEFINITELY ROUGHER
CONDITIONS STREETS THAT HAVE TO
GO THROUGH IT REALLY KIND
OF BOXES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
YEAH EXACTLY.
WE'VE GOT SOME CARS THAT ENDED
BEING ABANDONED AND EVEN SOME
SNOWPLOWS.
IT WAS SO SLICK THAT THEY KIND
OF SLID OFF THE ROAD AND INTO
THIS ONE KIND OF ENDED UP ON
THE SIDE OF