Readers share how the ongoing Republic Services trash strike is leaving neighborhoods with overflowing bins, rats, and unanswered questions.

The strike is affecting Bellevue, Kent, Edmonds, Lynnwood and Renton, as well as unincorporated parts of King and Snohomish counties.

People in some parts of Northern California are seeing and smelling the effects of an ongoing waste workers strike. That includes the city of Stockton, where trash is piling up at curbsides and city leaders are demanding answers as to why they weren't warned of a strike further in advance.