My S was having a bedframe delivered to our house because he lives in an apartment and delivery there would be difficult. He got a notification that they “returned it to Amazon” because no one was home to accept delivery. Spoiler alert: I was right there all day. Delivery person just didn’t want to carry it out of the truck.
S canceled the order; had it sent to Home Depot for less money and picked it up there.
UPS was scheduled yesterday, we live at the bottom of a huge shady hill, he won’t be coming down. I snowshoed my dog to the top of the hill and had just crossed the main road to some fields when I saw UPS coming, I considered flagging him down, but it was too complicated. 15 minutes later I had an email that my package was changed to delivery today, which also won’t happen.
If the delivery vehicle can’t make it to the street, they can’t see if you are home or not. Please be patient, folks. Give everyone some slack.
We have not had garbage pick up for 2 weeks. What we do is put garbage out in a bag next to the container next time the truck is able to come, and they pick it up no questions asked. They know the drill.
@BunsenBurner I think the issue is that there are days they can make it to the house and choose to not leave it, for a variety of reasons. On my D’s packages they have left different notes. On the good weather days they say she isn’t home. On the icky weather days they say there is a weather emergency. In her case the notes match the weather reality. I just don’t know why they won’t leave sheets when she isn’t home when they would leave clothes when she wasn’t home.
Bunsen, I don’t care if the weather keeps a delivery away. It is the “can’t leave it unattended” when they didn’t even try that is silly.
My wild guess is that “not able to leave my vehicle unattended and walk around the block to see if the recipient is home” is not available from the dropdown menu of options. They just pick whatever is closest to the reality. 
The X made it up the hill. The question is whether it can make it down safely later today (or end up wheels up like the neighbor’s car - yikes!!!).
My FWD car has done fine all week but I got stuck this morning. The snow has gotten heavy and wet, 16 inches has bettered my car. I have had five very large branches come down in my yard, what we call widow makers.
I am originally from upstate NY so I know snow and how to drive in it. I am so over this right now.
We had an audit scheduled at work, which is why it is the only reason i came in today. I was surprised he was able to fly in at all, but he made and is now stuck at the hotel in Redmond. The joy of ramming a two day audit into one day awaits us tomorrow. 
It’s a slushy mess here on top of Queen Anne. If this freezes tonight nobody is going anywhere tomorrow.
Mr. B was supposed to have visitors at work… there are only 2 or 3 folks who made it to work yesterday, and just a handful more today. He is glad that the visitors decided to postpone.
On top of Queen Anne as well. My day will be spent dealing with our tree that fell onto neighbor’s car. Of course, our insurance says ‘act of God’ and neighbor should contact his insurer. Neighbor not happy and says this is not the case and he doesn’t want to contact his insurer. Can’t blame him. Snow sure was pretty, until it wasn’t. ;0)
Your insurance guy is right, it is the insurance of the owner of the injured items insurance which pays, even though that seems counter-intuitive. Unless they can prove negligence with a dead or sick tree.
DS in lower Queen Anne just said slush and rain, which doesn’t seem to have caused him any issues. He did mention the biospheres have been closed for two days; don’t know why. I laughed this morning when AccuWeather showed almost identical weather for him and for our old home town in the western suburbs of Chicago, including areal flooding advisories. It was one degree difference in temperature.
They’re still dealing with power outages and poor road conditions around Hood Canal and on highway 101.
As soon as the PUD gets an area back online, another one goes off. Hoping to get over there this weekend to check on things.
it is moving toward slushmaggedon.
The main difference between Seattle and Chicago - we should be quite done with snow after this week (and have not seen a snowflake in Dec-Jan). Chicago - not so much.
Here is an article explaining who is responsible for clearing the S stuff of sidewalks:
Monday night we got about 12" of snow before the rain started. Limbs were snapping off our 100+ft tall Douglas firs all night. We have about 20 in our back and front yards. I’ll deal with it when the snow melts.
I managed to plow my way out of the cul-de-sac with the chains on and got to work around 6:30. I turned on the computer then walked to the upper road and dragged a couple of trees out of it. I was walking back down when the transformers blew and we lost power. I went home about 9:30 and plowed my way back into the cul-de-sac. I got home and no power there, either.
I walked downtown to my wife’s work, about 2 miles through the snow, to fix the chains on her car. One of the links broke so I rigged it back together. Many businesses were closed. Many people were out walking to the stores.
I came back and spent a couple of hours with the chainsaw cutting up a tree that had fallen into the road near the elementary school. The woman in the house is in her 70s and her husband has dementia. A lot of people are really stuck by this. The town’s lazy-butt teenagers are not out there helping.
With the warmer weather and the drizzle the snow turned to concrete. Even 4wd vehicles were getting stuck. W broke both chains trying to get into the cul-de-sac. Our neighbor with the really big pickup towed her to the driveway, and we shoveled a path to get her parked. Luckily the power came back on about 5:00.
The main roads are plowed. The side roads and many parking lots are socked in until this melts. It may take a couple of weeks at this rate.
OH MY! I am just imagining what a day you had and it becomes especially difficult with the lights off.
It is great that you can walk places. Thanks for being mindful of the 70 yr old in your neighborhood.
H will be 70 this year and while he would want to be out there working it would not be a good health plan.
And I do remember forcing S out to help others as a tee. Pretty sure he, at 28, would offer on his own now.
Hey PNW, Your weather is vacationing in Southern California and it has overstayed its welcome! Seriously, it’s been cold and raining for weeks with NO end in sight. I understand that you are currently hosting the Canadian mist (missed Canada and hit USA), so send it back up north and take back your weather. Thank you from the green but saturated southwest.