YMCA dedication postponed; most of Valley still in dark
January 20, 2012
By Sebastian Moraga
With the snow turning to rain, the Valley tried to return to normalcy after a week of delays, closures and detours.
Still, thousands of people remain in the dark across the Valley, according to the website for Puget Sound Energy.
Even as the snowfall stopped, calendars, plans and schedules kept collapsing. The latest victim was the Jan. 21 grand opening of the Snoqualmie Community Center and the YMCA. The city has yet to reschedule, according to a press release from Joan Pliego, public information officer for the city of Snoqualmie.
On a bit of good news, Pliego added that after a two-day closure Snoqualmie Parkway reopened Jan. 20.
The city called on its residents to clear ice and debris from storm drains, as Snoqualmie Public Works crews work on this issue but needed the residents’ and business owners’ help to reach all affected drains.
According to the King County Road Alert email, several roads elsewhere in the Valley remain unusable as of Jan.20.
State Route 202 remained closed from Snoqualmie’s Salish Lodge and Spa to Fall City. State Route 18 is closed both ways from Snoqualmie to Southeast 231st Street, milepost 16 in Maple Valley.
Lake Alice Road and North Fork Road Southeast in Snoqualmie remain closed due to downed trees.
Tokul Road Southeast between Southeast 53rd Way and Southeast 60th Street is also closed.
In North Bend, Southeast Edgewick Road from 464th Way to the end area remains closed.
In Fall City, Neal Road Southeast remains closed 200 feet from the intersection with State Route 203.
At Snoqualmie Pass, a power outage west of the summit has made chaining up a more dangerous job than usual.
At 11:45 p.m. Jan. 20, the Washington State Department of Transportation stopped traffic at milepost 56 and westbound at milepost 61, for avalanche control.
Lastly, Eastside Fire & Rescue reported a minor fire in North Bend left no injuries. At 2:53 a.m. Jan. 20, firefighters arrived at the 45100 block of Southeast 130th Place. Occupants of the house told authorities they had placed candles on a cardboard box when the fire began. According to an EFR press release , nobody was injured and the building suffered minimal damages.
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