The Great Seattle Wind Storm of 2006
Comments(1) So if you haven’t heard already, there was a tremendous wind storm in the Seattle area on Thursday and Friday, with winds from 60mph to over 100mph. This took down trees and power lines all over the area and has led stupid people to do stupid things, entire families to die from their mistakes, smart people to get caught off guard, and intuition affording one family amazing luck. The death toll at this writing is a dozen people but there’s undoubtedly more to come.
My problems started on Wednesday, when heavy rains and strong winds were enough to start taking down trees. One in particular at the bottom of my driveway went down and hit a power line across the street on its way, sometime mid-morning Wednesday. I made it out to work at 7:30am, but I found this when I came home at 4:00pm:
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