SeaHawk

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Finding out this morning many people at work are still without power. My wife, who works for the City of Auburn, personally oversaw some elderly people getting moved to where they could be cared for. A lot of these people rely on power to keep them from freezing and cannot help themselves when it goes out.

Driving down 405 from Everett Saturday night was rather spooky with how dark it was for most of the trip. I'd look over and know there was a thriving neighborhood there but could see nothing...

I can't gripe so much about cold showers in that light, but now I'll have to ensure we install proper generators next to the weapons room in our retirement fortress...

1BAD95Z

Our Power went out Thursday around 9pm and just came back on last night around 7:30pm.

We were lucky we didn't have any trees come down in our yard, just a ton of debris. Our road was covered with trees and we had to drive to Sultan to get back to Monroe. My Parents weren't so lucky though, Down in Olympia my mom got her car totaled by a tree and there is a huge tree laying on top of their woodshed. They don't know how they are going to get it down yet...

Revelation Z28

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we got the tail end of the storm down here, well at least thats what it was. it got down to the 30's here with rain/frost.

our mountains actually have white on them lol.

1BAD95Z

Here are some pics of the debris at my house...Some of those big limbs I had moved out of the driveway so that Ellis could get out.

http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...%2006%20storm/

I don't think those limbs hit my car, but they are still too close for comfort

krazzycowgirl

Still with out power here.

longdaddy

out of about a dozen people in my team, 4 still didn't have power as of today's morning... crazy

I got it back on saturday.

howierd42

It's Monday night and I just got power back. Finally shower, warm bed and clean clothes.

GEARHED

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You mean...I could have been doing laundry there?!

Still no power. They are now saying "could be Friday or after Christmas". Took two days just to get out of 165th, we were pretty well trapped and it looks like a bomb went off all around us. The two houses behind us got sawed by trees, the house across from us has all of our power poll leaning up on their roof (the only thing keeping it upright) and we have yet to see ONE utility truck on our road.


Someone remind me why we put friggin lights on the house if all that was going to happen...driving to my son's place isn't so bad but going back home - I'm getting wrecked from trying to keep warm and pipes from freezing

Steve Goodwin

Just got a call from the Kids we have power (Tuesday).

We were very lucky lots of big trees came down but nothing hit the house.

I can't wait to sleep in a warm house.

krazzycowgirl

They say saturday here for us Amy, had to start shipping my kids to friends places just that way they can stay warm. Tonight is my daughters night. Shes over at a friends place not 2 miles down the road that has power. tomorrow my son is going to a friends place.

howierd42

I called John. Don't blame me if he did not relay the message.

AndreS

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I lost power thursday night, got it back on sunday morning.
I was in Redmond when power went out there, I'd just got out of work, knowing that we had no power in Sammamish, I stopped at jack in the box to get some hot food... the second I got back on the street, power went out. the drive home was in darkness, and interesting- driving around downed trees & power lines... when I got home, a tree had fallen across the drive between 10PM when my brother came home, and 1 AM when I did, luckily, no major damage.
interestingly, I had hot water the whole time.... I love gas h2o heaters! used a catalytic heater on saturday night to stay warm, and added a zero degree sleeping bag to the covers... toasty all night! still need to clear out the fridge & toss much of it.

1BAD95Z

One of our neighbors was just here and said that they saw the root ball of one of our trees I don't know why it took them so long to come and tell us, but I wonder if that tree will still be standing after the wind storm tonight? Anyone know what it will cost to have a tree or 10 removed?

krazzycowgirl

Just call someone who is in desprate need of Firewood next year lol they will do it for free

1BAD95Z

Well, the tree is probably 60 ft tall or so and still standing and it's up on the hill behind our house..not easy to get down without hitting something...

Steve Goodwin

Tree removal is expensive probably looking at $500 to $ 700 per tree, which sounds like a ton but it is hard & dangerous work.

NWDragRacer

I'll be over in a little while to take a look.

Revelation Z28

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flat bed and a V8 chainsaw will take care of it

post it in the F/S section

TwoFast4Lv

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OK So we will hook it to your car and you can pull it over for us... GREAT!!!

um.....You didn't realy want to keep your car....right?

jewbacca

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Man was is crazy here last Thursday. We have a bunch of trees behind our house, so me and my mom stayed up watching those. Infact, I watched one of the trees by house fall on our neighbors car! It was also pretty fun watching all the transformers go out all night. Our power was out till sunday morning. So all i really could do was go to the Deja Vu saterday night. Luckly they had power, lol.