Its windy as all hell up here!
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Not sure if any of you guys are hearing about the storm the northwest is getting or not, but were likely to have 100mph winds. Lots of flooding, and power outages, its crazy.
A news story about the last time one of these hit.
http://headlines.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&article=0
A news story about the last time one of these hit.
http://headlines.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&article=0
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Yeah thegodzero I live not to far from Seattle a bit north and it's blowing like a bangkok whore at happy hour here im thinking the power is going to go any minute !
Ach, yer all a bunch of puffs. It's -20 here and I have to sleep in a hole in the road.
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and still wearing shorts and sandals!
Ferg - Hope you make it ok... and have FUN!
We just got back power today, couldn't get any fire wood so had to live with it being 35 degrees inside for the past 3 days. Had my first hot meal in 3 days also today, felt great after chips and dip for all my meals. Not having power or any way to get warm when it gets down in the 20's sucks.
Also need trees with thicker trunks. The pine trees here seem to fall down easily even with 40 MPH winds. OK, at least in Everett they do.
I consider it a fair trade for the snow that kept me in the house for a solid week (as opposed to all the other times I stayed in the house for a solid week because I didn't have anything better to do.)
For the most part things are back on track. But they keep having to interrupt power to fix certain areas, which is almost more annoying than having it just go black for a few days.
Ran out of firewood yesterday, not that it really helped, our house was still 49 degrees with the fire blazing. Cold weather sleeping bags finally came in handy
Being bright citizens of America, we decided "Hey! nows a good time to see the new Bond!" since the closest mall was bright with electricity and we were quite cold. So we close up our home, but are not sure what to do about the log. It said on the package that it would only burn for two hours, about this time it had been two hours. so we closed it down a little, but kept a crack in the fireplace as to keep a slight updraft, and let it burn out.
Bond was fun
We get back, get out of our car, and look up towards the stars. They shone like i've never seen at our house! It was still difficult to see because of the massive amounts of smoke in the air from all of our neighbors burning wood in their fireplaces, but we could still see most things very clearly. My dad was pointing out constellations to me, when I thought I heard his UPC on his computer beeping because it ran out of batteries... We get closer to the door, and the beeping is too loud to be that. Oh shit- the fire alarm.
We open the door, the house is completely filled with smoke, we run in (like idiots) and open every window possible, to try to de-smoke our house. No power means no fans. nearly impossible to breathe without coughing, we sat outside for a good 30 minutes before I used the last of my cell phone's battery to call my girlfriend, and we ended up staying the night at her parents' place.
The next day we checked back on the house; it was 38 degrees inside, and still pretty hard to breathe. fuck. We gather every thing that has that aweful stench upon it and take it to the nearest open cleaners (somewhere in lynnwood). Ugh.
Its now monday, I'm writing this from the warmth of my brother's apartment in Kirkland, since they've had power since saturday night. Word has it that power just came on near my house, but we're just going to check on it, make sure no electronics need to be turned off before the power gets on, and then we're going to figure out what to do next tomorrow. I'm both glad, and depressed that my dog died only months before this, he was old, and I don't think he'd be able to handle it, and killing him by accident because of smoke inhalation would have been devistating.
The crazy thing was, in Seattle, I live on Magnolia's hillside, and the apartments directory behind mine and all the way up the hill, the power was out, and the houses directly in front of my building and almost all the way down the hill were out, until saturday night. Yet all the buildings including mine in a row right to left on the hill had power.
Thursday night was crazy times! The wind was howling all night!