While employees of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer coped with the news of an impending sale or shutdown, on the roof above them the P-I globe, a Seattle icon since 1948, was undergoing repair. Recent snowstorms damaged the neon and caretaker Dave DeFrank was called out of retirement to fix it up. The globe is in as bad shape as the newspaper business below it, rusted and faded. From the photos you can see that it is much larger than you may suspect from far away.