Survivor...Seattle Style
We have been in Seattle for twelve years now and I've never seen a winter THIS bad. We had 70 mph wind gusts overnight and 48 sustained. M. and I were seriously worried one of the giant conifers in our back yard would land on our bed. Did this keep us from sleeping in it? No. Nevermind that we could have moved to the hid-a-bed in the living room. Not SO smart sometimes.This morning we woke to find one of our parking strip trees had fallen onto our fence. Power is out all over the city. Everywhere I go people are out, stocking up of food and ice, etc.... There was a run on muffins at our fave chichi market. Traffic was backing up into McDonald's parking lots and there were long lines at the gas stations. Most businesses were closed with no electricity.
It's CRAZINESS.
One of our bridges, i.e. mainlines to the eastside suburbs, is shut down. There was flash flooding IN THE CITY. M. was stuck in the rain and traffic last night with intersections and highways shut down from water on the roadway. The picture? She was there!
And after all that, you can't believe what a beautiful day it is now.
posted by Sacha @ 12:47 PM
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2 Comments:
Thought of you two (three!) when I saw this on the news this afternoon. We're in rough shape here too - it HAS been a crazy crazy winter on the west coast!
I read about that vicious wind out there this morning. We have wind like that all the time in Lvingston, MT. It killed a man the other day (construction worker, got blown off a 6th story roof). Fortunately that's unusual despite our frequent 70 mph winds...but still, nasty!
I hope you all are doing ok and don't have any major damage.
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