<p>It’s blowing like snot out there. It’s not like a Gulf Coast hurricane, but we do have 100-foot-plus tall conifers waiting to crush us all like insects. It doesn’t really get that cold here, but we do get a lot of interesting weather.</p>
<p>Yikes, I just peeked out of the window! The wind did pick up in the last few minutes! It’s gonna be a nice commute…</p>
<p>yeah, its going crazy. i hope i dont lose power.</p>
<p>Didn’t you guys just have some sort of major storm (ice???) within the last year? What are you doing trying to out do California and Louisiana for major disasters?</p>
<p>we had a similar problem last december, but nothing like hurricane katrina, luckily.</p>
<p>wow – didn’t know it could blow “like snot”… trying to picture it… uhm, maybe not.</p>
<p>Actually, the Hanukkah Eve storm of December, 2006 windstorm packed a lot of wind energy spread out over a wide area. On December 15, over 1,000,000 people were without electricity. Local utilities reported hundreds of power poles and high-tension lines were down, and about 18 people died. My neighbor’s house had a 120-foot fir tree through its dining room. A house about a mile from here was hit by 11 trees. Total monetary damages are hard to calculate, but insured losses were over $200 million. Here at CasaWash we lost power for 7 days and all internet, TV and phone access for 16 days.</p>
<p>A couple of orders of magnitude less damage than Katrina, thank God, but pretty disruptive nonetheless.</p>
<p>ahhh, flickering! i hope the power stays on.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it just glanced by us for the most part and moved north. It’s rather windy today here, but nothing like I was expecting. Hunker down and stay safe!</p>
<p>i have a community college class at 730. i wonder if it will be canceled.</p>
<p>I’m hearing that the winds will be dying down by then. And really, this is not supposed to be that major, just a warm-up for the season.</p>
<p>But if we want tell wind-storm stories, why I remember the Inauguration Day storm of 91, and the Easter storm of about 1995, and . . .</p>
<p>Can’t wait to cross the I-90 bridge. If I miss the Office tonight I’ll be POd. I live on Snoqualmie Ridge which is one of the real windy areas in all King County.</p>
<p>When I was in Oregon a couple of weeks ago for my empty-nest present to myself, I took many walks on the beach. There were a couple of times that I experienced wind like never before. I’d walk south a couple of miles and it would take me almost an hour, then when I’d head back north, I basically made the same distance in half the time. Then of course, there was the blowing sand… so when I walked into the wind, I would have to walk close to the water’s edge because the wet sand wouldn’t blow. It was very interesting!</p>
<p>Hmm, I thought it was supposed to miss Seattle, up by BC it’s windy, but notihg scary yet- with one kid on a ferry and one kid driving to Seattle I am hoping it is not a big deal, but am watching those 125 foot firs with trepidation and thoughts of which kitchen countertops and which vacuum I would buy if the house is smooshed.</p>
<p>Gosh, I better call and check on the relatives. Mother has a huge pine tree in the backyard that’s been dry as bone and just as brittle since I was in high school ages ago. If it fell forward it would not only trash the house but block the street out front as well. Only a slight exaggeration.</p>
<p>After the storm last December, our big cedar (110 feet, 24 inch diameter) was leaning toward the house (40 feet away) at about a 5-degree angle from vertical. We called the tree guy. By about February he had time in his schedule to come and talk to us (yes, there were more urgent trees than ours). He recommended removing not just that tree, but a few others. As I sit here watching trees whip back and forth, I feel MUCH safer than I did in the last storm–during which a dead madrone broke about five feet from the ground, bounced off the house, and scraped a small gouge in the stucco, smashing to the ground 2 inches from the house.</p>
<p>VERY windy here–and we’ve lost power for a few minutes a few times.</p>
<p>We lost power for about 2 hours in Kent yesterday afternoon. The power came back on while we were eating the pizza we had delivered, it ended up not really being a problem. I just wish I had remembered to reset the time on my alarm clock so that I would have gotten to work on time today.</p>
<p>I went to a high school football game last night and it was kind of fun. After the first couple passes both teams pretty much stuck to running the football the rest of the game. There were some really long (or really short) kicks in the game depending on which direction the wind was blowing at the time of the kick.</p>
<p>We never have storms in Oregon. Storms either goes south to CA or north to WA. Keeps our hazard insurance rates down.
So, Teriwtt, where in Or coast did you go?</p>
<p>“We never have storms in Oregon.” You guys get freezing rain, don’t you? I once drove through Portland during a massive snowstorm…</p>
<p>Cannon Beach… it wasn’t a storm, but it was sure windy by my standards. I’d say gusts up around the 30mphs - just enough to make it hard to walk into.</p>