Saturday, December 16, 2006

The Perfect Storm

For those of you keeping up with national news over the past week, we've had a horrendous windstorm in Seattle on Thursday night, and since then my mom's house has been without power or heat. It's been miserable, and all I can say is thank God for down comforters and gas burners on the stove. Power is supposed to come back on sometime Sunday night at the latest. Some estimates were running that up to a million people in the Seattle area have been without power over the past few days. It was worse than the storm we had back in the 90s that knocked out power for about 3 days.

I'm now down in Tacoma for the next 5 days or so at my dad's house, so I probably won't be posting much. Got a lot of Christmas shopping and work to do, meaning reading lots of books and white papers for my thesis research.

2 comments:

Ronda said...

Aww, sad that you are in Tacoma, because I will be gone by the time you are back! If you are still going to be here on the 30th and after, you should let me know so we can meet up for a little visit. Hopefully I will see you rather soon! Enjoy your break and Christmas!!

By the way, my family was without power until Saturday night, but my house by UW never lost it at all. But of course I was stuck in Renton in the cold. *grumble*

Lori said...

hey, my dad was telling me about that, sucks, sorry dude. But you are home with no school, so at least you have that.