For many across the Pacific Northwest, summer and Seafair reach their pinnacle as the six pilots behind the yokes of the “Blue” Boeing F/A-18 Hornets make their thunderous and spectacular appearance. Blue Angels demonstrations will take place daily from Fri., Aug. 6 through Sun., Aug. 8, from 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Bridge Closures: The Washington State Department of Transportation will close all lanes of Interstate 90 across Lake Washington several times from Thur., Aug. 5, through Sun., Aug. 8, to accommodate air show practices and performances by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels for this year’s Seafair festivities:
Thursday – 9:45 a.m. – noon & 1:15-2:30 pm: I-90 bridge closed both eastbound and westbound, mainline and express lanes – between Interstate 5 in Seattle to Island Crest Way on Mercer Island. All I-90 bus service will be rerouted to State Route 520 during the closures.
Friday – 12:45-2:40 pm: I-90 bridge closed both eastbound and westbound, mainline and express lanes – between Interstate 5 in Seattle to Island Crest Way on Mercer Island. All I-90 bus service will be rerouted to State Route 520 during the closure.
Saturday – 12:45-2:40 pm: I-90 bridge closed both eastbound and westbound, mainline and express lanes – between Interstate 5 in Seattle to Island Crest Way on Mercer Island. All I-90 bus service will be rerouted to State Route 520 during the closure.
Sunday – 12:45-2:40 pm: I-90 bridge closed eastbound and westbound, mainline and express lanes – between Interstate 5 in Seattle to Island Crest Way on Mercer Island. All I-90 bus service will be rerouted to State Route 520 during the closure.
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What about bikes? Can you still ride across the bridge?
hate ‘em
$150,000 well spent.
Wonder if the BA’s and the hydros would be so popular in Seattle if they blasted their noise and smoke over the *north* end of the city? Or over Queen Anne? And if Seafair traffic clogged the Magnolia bridge?
Just sayin’.
Love ‘em (a bargain at any price).
This has been a part of living in the South End for the past 50+ years, it comes with the territory. Rather than fight it, I suggest you embrace it.
The crowd is happy to pay for admission and pay for food and drinks, etc. Seems like a win win for the neighborhood that hosts Seafair.
“Seems like a win win for the neighborhood that hosts Seafair.”
Maybe for the couple of businesses in the area but I wouldn’t consider it a win win for the neighborhood which is mainly residential, maybe the people selling parking in their front yards for $40.00 a pop.
For a city flush with hempfests, equinox and solstice festivals, parades of nude bike riders etc. I find it refreshing to still have a wholesome celebration, steeped in seattle history and one in which I need not shield my children’s eyes.
I may be wrong, but methinks I detect a whiff of the sad elitism that has proliferated here in the post-grunge Seattle. I suspect that most of you just don’t have deep enough south end roots to truly appreciate Seafair. In a city that has changed much in my lifetime (some for the better, some not), Seafair is a refreshing remnant of a Seattle almost gone, a Festivus for the rest of us!
“I may be wrong, but methinks I detect a whiff of the sad elitism that has proliferated here in the post-grunge Seattle. I suspect that most of you just don’t have deep enough south end roots to truly appreciate Seafair. ”
True, my roots have only been in this soil since 1994. But how is it elitist if someone does not feel the same way as you regarding Seafair?
You live up on Findlay street and do not have every drunk jackhat in town in your yard.
I knew it, you think you are better than drunk jackhats! : )
I lived in Seattle for 30 plus years and I don’t care at all for Seafair. I’m not interested in boat races or airplanes.
I’m not an elitest, it’s just not my thing. I don’t care for Bumbershoot either.
There’s plenty of events in Seattle that I enjoy and attend on a regular basis because I personally enjoy them. But I don’t think anyone else is snobby or an elistist because they don’t like them too.
Everyone has different tastes in what they enjoy.
If you love Seafair, good for you. Go have a great time. Enjoy yourself. Just don’t expect everyone else to love it too.
Whaaat? I can’t hear you….whaaat?
@Findlay Street: wholesome celebration? Why because drunken litter bugs are wholesome? Have you seen the behavior at the log boom?
I see the Summer solstice and Hempfest (and if anyone has been to the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta) as way more family-friendly than this event. I think the elitism sits with you and your stereotypes, rather than actual attendance of these events you claim aren’t as wholesome as Seafair.
Seafair, the wholesome family event! Yeah, right.
“I knew it, you think you are better than drunk jackhats! : )”
Drunk Jack hats yes, someone having a few beers is no problem.
It’s just that it seems that Seafair causes a sort of memory loss and people forget they have to use the restroom until they are a block or two away. Guess where I live?
After this week I am ready to go home and become half a drunk jackhat.
I do find it hard to defend Seafair as a “wholesome” celebration – my first live topless sighting in 1984 or so (not that there have been nor will be more).
Perhaps posts such as this are troll-bait. Obviously, Seafair is extreme and prompts strong opinions. But if you live there, well, it has bern going on for 50+ years. It’s not like you didn’t know. It only sounds “elitist” when you make it sound like some personal attack on you or your neigjborhood. Which it isn’t .
How bad does the weather have to be for the air show to be called off?
Seafair is for suckers.
I hate the blue angles. They just woke our 5 month infant up from sleeping. Fuck the blue angles!!!
Have lived here my whole life. Love ‘em!
I hate that a parent of an infant has to use profanity! Do you hate also hate people and animals that may awake your infant?
@Anon: have you ever been the parent of an infant? I have – two of ‘em – and YES, I hated any person, animal or thing that woke my sleeping baby, even if it was my other child. Pretty sure every mom in my baby group felt the same way. Hell, sometimes you even hate the baby… LOL
PS. I said f*** a lot, too. Planning to pay for their college educations with proceeds from the swear jar… LOL
People need a license to parent. It is interesting how most adoptive parents go thru a much more rigorous process than biological parents. Word!
Thinkin that’s a “no”, cuz pregnancy & life w/a newborn is nothing if not rigorous, and the most valuable tool in surviving the process is a sense of humor.
Why assume that I have no children…how about grandchildren? I respect childrens privacy of any age on the internets.
The acrobatic plane is a heck of a lot more irritating than the military planes.
Swear jars always get me. I usually just walk in throw in a couple of bucks and I’m good for an hour or two.
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