TikToks from Seattle's ice storm showing people crawling up icy streets on their hands and knees and cars crashing in slow-motion into each other

• TikToks of the Western Washington ice storm have captured the attention of millions on TikTok.
• Videos show parked cars sliding down inclines, people using makeshift pick axes, and people walking their dogs on their hands and knees.

The Pacific Northwest were slammed by a massive winter storm this weekend — and videos of Seattleites managing the aftermath are going viral on TikTok.

Over Thursday and Friday, TikTokers ice skated down suburban streets. A December 24 video, viewed 2.7 million times, appears to have compiled different vantage points of the same intersection where parked cars slid down a street and smashed into one another. In another December 24 video, people walk their dog by crawling on their hands and knees.

Some use crampons to traverse the city. Others, like the subject of this December 24 TikTok, crawled on their hands and knees, slowly passing what looks like a multiple-car accident that includes a mail truck, armed with what looks like makeshift ice axes into the ice sheet for traction.

"Lol!!!! Man it be rough in Seattle dude going to have to stop for the night and make for the summit at dawn," one viewer commented.

The metro area's transportation ground to a halt — the first time since 1996 that the bus service stopped completely. Meanwhile, the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport closed all three of its runways in an "unprecedented" move. In less than 24 hours, the Washington State Patrol responded to 253 collisions, per the Seattle Times.

A look at the hashtag #seattleicestorm (which has 99.4 million views) shows countless videos of vehicles sliding down roads or onlookers catching the moment a neighbor glided backward down a hill — set to "Only Time" by Enya — or firefighters gingerly picking their way across the ice — this time, set to "Stayin Alive" by the Bee Gees. The University of Washington School of Medicine reported about 70 ice-related injuries by mid-day on Friday, per the Seattle Times.

Users have uploaded videos of people sliding down lengthy driveways or neighborhood roads on tubes, the moment they used a spatula to remove thick plates of ice from their car, and an alarming instance of an out-of-control car appearing to nearly hit pedestrians who had slowly slid off the sidewalk and into the road.

"This guy had to catch an Uber that couldn't come up the hill," read the on-screen text of a December 24 video of a person on their back sliding down a residential hill.

"I saw a video of him at the bottom of the hill, too," commented another person.

When views from apartment windows failed, camera-equipped alarms showed people flailing up driveways and cars sliding en masse down the road.

Warmer weather helped to melt some of the ice on Christmas Eve, but officials have expressed concern about the risk of urban flooding in Western Washington, according to local outlets.

Across the US, a "once-in-a-generation storm" has resulted in 50 deaths — including 28 people in Western New York — and stranded thousands of travelers during the holiday rush.