Cynthis Flash from Flash Media Services offers the Times/News a nice story about a good deed by Tukwila city staffers during this week’s snowstorm:

Kidney dialysis patients rely on their visits to the dialysis center every other day for dialysis treatment, which replaces their non-functioning kidneys to clean the body of toxins. It’s imperative that patients receive dialysis treatment three times a week to survive.

Unfortunately, this becomes complicated during snowstorms when roads become treacherous to travel. This was the case Wednesday morning when a Tukwila resident realized there was too much snow on his road (the dead end part of S. 150th Street east of 42nd Ave. S.) to get his girlfriend to her dialysis treatment at Northwest Kidney Centers SeaTac Kidney Center at 17900 International Blvd. S in SeaTac.

He sent an e-mail to the city of Tukwila at 10:04 a.m., asking if the city could plow and sand the difficult part of his road, from 42nd Ave. to Thorndyke Elementary

Within three hours City of Tukwila Public Works Director Bob Giberson sent an e-mail to the city’s emergency manager Martin Grisham asking for him to contact the resident.

By 2:59 p.m., Northwest Kidney Centers learned from the patient that the city had plowed the road and the patient would be able to arrive for her dialysis treatment on time.

Kudos to the city of Tukwila for its hard work!