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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 11h

You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment

Seismogram showing ground motion at T-Mobile Park for game-winning single by Seattle Mariner Jorge Polanco, JP Crawford scores!

MLB poster for PostSEAson 2025 that reads Seis the Moment with a small seismogram between the Seis and the The. Has website for PNSN seismograms of the game. mariners.pnsn.org

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 11h

I’m dead but it was all worth it

Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 11h

You can’t script it. The Mariners are willed to victory by Humpy the fish finally winning his first race in the middle of the 15th inning. The crowd chants “Humpy Humpy” as the trident crosses off the ALDS win.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 12h

Just doing some math here…

I’ve attended 4 Mariners playoff games in my life and seen 53 innings of baseball and counting.

Getting my money’s worth

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve never been this nervous for a sporting event before…GO M’s!!!

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #FieldworkFriday Mariners fans! Cal Raleigh said he could feel the ground shaking in Game 2, so PNSN came to take a closer look! We installed a seismometer right here in T-Mobile Park to record seismic energy during game 5. Seattle, we want to feel this place rocking! #SeizeTheMoment

PNSN install team standing along dugout with the empty green seats of TMobile Park behind them.

PNSN Field Engineer installing seismic instrument on concrete ground. Tool bag in foreground, black wall in background.

Looking over the right shoulder of PNSN Field Engineer working on laptop with green seismic instrument in background.

Green seismic instrument on ground, Grey and blue cable extending from rear.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 3d

You never know for sure but today could end up being the last 70+ degree day of 2025 in Seattle.

We transition to a cooler, cloudier, and wetter pattern tomorrow. No sign of any major storms, however.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 4d

That's why daycare is 7:30-5:30 since those are the hours that parents actually need to be covered.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 4d

HRRR forecast for 4 pm in Detroit shows some lingering showers. Nothing too heavy. A few hours later it is completely clear. So a delay is possible but the Mariners will play today. (hopefully we get a delay to start the game later!)

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 15d

Prediction: Cal gets to 63 on Sunday when the Dodgers decide to mess with the Yankees by grooving him a few meatballs.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 16d

Speaking officially as the host of Jeopardy!, Cal Raleigh is the correct MVP vote.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 17d

To be fair the Mariners’ incompetence dragged it out for like 3 years longer than it should have been…

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 17d

That was undoubtedly my favorite Tuesday night baseball game of all time.

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Ensembleator @ensembleator.bsky.social · 24d

Plume creating an orange purple sunset #YVR from a very active fire on the southern flank of the Olympics. The plume should shift more to the east tomorrow - perhaps over the city

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 24d

You would basically have to continue running an all-day express bus downtown that picks up the two popular C-line stops on Avalon/35th and Avalon/Yancy. Because nobody there is going to trade a one-seat rapid ride for a three-seat bus -> 3-line -> 1-line experience.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 25d

Dangerous fire weather conditions are expected Tuesday afternoon on the western slopes of the Cascades, especially in areas prone to gap winds (Enumclaw, I-90 corridor, US-2 corridor). We are lucky there are no ongoing fires in this area, but any new starts have the potential to spread rapidly.

hot-dry-windy index, which is a proxy for wildfire risk

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · Sep 4

Depends on the agency. It seems like Sound Transit is afraid of adverse impacts in the EIS, but other agencies like Port of Seattle or WSDOT seem to just shrug off those impacts..."yeah it's gonna cause a ton of pollution, too bad, we're doing it anyway". ST doesn't act like they have 80% support.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · Sep 4

The process for everything involved in light rail scoping/planning is incredibly dumb. Touching literally any existing structure/road/pipe is a minefield. So tunnels are cheaper/easier and in the case of downtown they need super deep tunnels so that nothing existing is disturbed.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · Sep 3

Given the current wildfire growth across the PNW and the forecast winds over the next week, we could see a situation where smoke becomes persistent across much of the PNW by next week. Time to get those air filters / N95s / etc if you haven't already.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · Sep 3

Let's hear your proposal. What route and where should the 3 stations have gone?

Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ultimately you have cost inflation which is a problem with all megaprojects. You have ridiculous rules in the EIS when it comes to "adverse impacts". You have some serious topographical challenges. But they have a completed EIS and enough money. Just build the damn thing already!

Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · Sep 3

Not defending anyone here, I just don't want the narrative to be that there were other options they should have considered. They tried just about everything and they had legitimate reasons for dropping bad alignments. Almost everyone likes the final location of the Junction station.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yes that was what killed elevated ultimately, but the politics were already against it at that time. The Junction association was pushing hard for 42nd. The Delridge station looked ridiculous because elevated had to climb Genesee hill. The conceptual renderings were rightfully ridiculed on the blog.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · Sep 3

And of course everyone was jostling to get the alignment that most favored their neighborhood. Personally I wanted the alignment close by but not too close, for instance. Then they drew the line directly on top of my house in 2020 and I was like NOOOOO don't do that, longer tunnel pretty please!!!

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · Sep 3

I personally commented that they should just go at grade in the median but I was told that wasn't within the scope of what the voters approved, it had to be 100% grade separated. And the public was explicitly told not to factor in cost. So of course the tunnel was the most attractive by far.

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