Coping with the blizzard of inches

Yesterday we hiked over to the Rocking Frog, because I was going a little insane from news feeds, the snow, the radio and the general immobilization of the city. On the way we saw the 15 bus stuck on 25th.



It was taking up the entire right lane, just hanging out with its hazards blinking. We sat by the window so we could keep an eye on it.



We were there for about two hours, drinking tea and having soup and stewing over What Next. For the entire two hours people kept coming up to the bus doors and peering inside, waving to the driver (who remained in the bus at his seat the entire time) and generally looking like they wanted to board a broken bus.

The bus was stuck in fairly busy area; at 25th Belmont becomes a one way street and people need to move over to Morrison in order to continue west. About every 8 minutes or so a cars would come shimmying around the bus so that they could continue on to Morrison bridge. Some trucks and lighter things had considerable difficulty doing this, and needed a few attempts. All the while, the bus did not move.

As we were leaving we saw another bus creeping along towards Stuck Bus. It had passed 26th already, and was not small enough to continue on Belmont into oncoming traffic, so we weren't sure what it was going to do. It slowed, stopped. The driver got out to go talk to the other driver. Five minutes later, the driver came back and inexplicably proceeded to attempt a climb of 25th. To pass Stuck Bus the way the other cars had been. About 20 seconds after it had begun, Second Bus became stuck like Stuck Bus, although it had the courtesy to slide further backwards, thereby blocking thoroughfare for all vehicles.

Snow: 2
City Buses: 0