Three things so far, just on the commute--getting to the train. For parking at the fairground parking lot, I think there were maybe five cars there in total, when usually there would be well over a hundred with more there on later trains. The 3/4 mile walk from the parking lot to the train platform revealed two business impacts--in a residential neighborhood. One Pizza restaurant has changed ownership and the home barbershop is gone as are the occupants of the home attached to it.
As for the train, usually there would have been 15-20 people in line at my platform to get on my "usual car" and today--there was just me! As of now, three stops later, there are six of us on my car that has 34 seats. When I got to Seattle and switched to light rail there were 11 people on a train car that has 27 seats with standing room only when I get on at the Stadium stop.
Then walking the mile from the train stop to my office building, I counted 21 businesses closed. One of those was a small hotel that only opened a few years ago. Some businesses where totally boarded up and some still open had windows with plywood still in them damaged in demonstrations from June of last year. The building our office is in is pretty much empty. The Door Man was still there.
I checked in at two Starbucks and my "usual pastry selection" was not being offered. A pretty basic menu of food items and lines of people 2-3 long. At my office, I picked up my Christmas Cards left there from last year along the staff party gift from the Zoom event held in December. Lastly, I had to relog in to the wi-fi since both of my devices are new from when last here.
Overall, a pretty dismal commute!
