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3 Responses to “The Great Seattle Windstorm of ’06”

1. Dan Sniderman says:

   December 19, 2006 at 7:26 AM

   OY! What an experience! I happened to call my sister last week (she lives in West Seattle) who told me “There’s a terrible storm, you’ll read about it in the papers” and boy was she right. I’m very happy your family is safe through the fiasco, hopefully life will be returning to normal soon! We had a pretty bad snowstorm here a few weeks ago – but nothing as bad as what you went through (except for a co-worker who totalled his car on the interstate, fortunately he was unhurt).

   I hope the rest of the winter has less weather-drama – and I’ll certainly know a restaurant to avoid on my next trip to Seattle!

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2. Keith says:

   December 19, 2006 at 11:12 PM

   My thoughts and prayers are with you all. We had some strong winds here in Hawaii on Friday as well (gusts to 50 mph) but nowhere near as damaging, from a “high pressure system to the north.” Wonder if it was from the same system.

   I remember the aftermath of the October earthquake. Power went off within minutes of the quake statewide. The neighbor islands came online quickly, but Oahu took most of the day to come back…some people were still without power the next day. Hawaiian Electric took some flak as a result. Would have been great to have a line-powered phone too.

   I think, after what your kids went through, they’ll be relieved to be in much warmer weather. Bon voyage.

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3. Jason Truesdell : Pursuing My Passions : A reunion, a game, a windstorm, a party says:

   December 20, 2006 at 12:04 AM

   [...] Except for a four hour round-trip commute to an unpowered office on Friday, and a seriously long delay at the UPS facility where I was trying to pick up a shipment that I needed to distribute as quickly as possible to some Christmas customers, I was largely unaffected by the fallout from Thursday’s crazy windstorm. Or rather, I was far more fortunate than many others, as the only serious problems for me were a minor loss of income and, unfortunately, a seriously long delay trying to get to a football game that Hiromi had planned to attend months ago. [...]

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