Ninety-three years without a death on the worst scree in the county. The incident secretary who keeps the figures finally goes up to find out why, and the ground makes room for her.
The last hand-leveled elevator in the city hall annex runs low at three, and everyone who rides it steps over the gap and says nothing. The 1927 installation ledger says why. Nobody reads it.
On Cutler Pass, wreckage arrives before the accident that causes it. A county snowplow operator learns the rule one marker at a time — and hauls the wrong wreck off the road.
