Earlier today, I linked to a breaking story about a fire on the Seattle Monorail — at the time, it was only an hour old — in my linklog.
Now that I’m home, I took some time to go through the various stories on the local news sites: KOMO’s story has been updated, plus KING5, an AP story printed verbatim in both the Seattle Times and the Seattle PI (I found it quite odd that the two competing local papers, rather than doing their own reporting, ran the identical AP story), plus one from CNN that Prairie pointed out.
Sounds like quite the freaky event, there — and, unfortunately, one certain to be hounded upon by the anti-monorail crowd in town, especially combined with two monorail stalls earlier in the year. (Ahem, and ahem.) Me, I’m somewhat amazed that there are as few problems as there are, considering how much mileage is put on those trains!
Amusingly enough, while talking with Prairie about the stories, where her reaction was to be a little freaked out and quite glad she wasn’t around, my first reaction was, “Well, no-one got hurt. Wish I’d been there with my camera!”
I’m such a boy sometimes.
iTunes: “Starsign” by Apoptygma Berzerk from the album Welcome to Earth (2000, 5:35).