Seattle North POOP 911

About Seattle North POOP 911

Burlington sits right off I-5 in the middle of the Skagit Valley, and its outlet stores and highway-side lots draw traffic from up and down the corridor long before the tulip fields down the road ever bloom again. In the rare winter when a system tracks far enough south to catch the valley, the crew is out working those big flat lots before the first shoppers pull off the freeway, since an unplowed lot here can stall traffic all the way back onto the exit ramp. They clear wide, working the rows in long straight passes suited to a flat valley grid, then push out to the residential streets nearby, where the driveways sit closer together than the lots do. The valley fog that follows a cold snap here can freeze onto a lot's painted lines before the plow ever gets to it, so the crew treats early as the only option. By store-opening time, the rows are clear and the ramp traffic moves like any other Tuesday.