Finally have power again since ice storm hit

Not sure if any of you have heard about the ice storm we had in the Seattle area, but we had about 1 inch of solid ice from freezing rain that ripped trees apart and caused extensive damage everywhere. We lost power for just about 4 days, finally got it back today about 3pm. I am so thankful to have power again, I really love electricity I have figured out.

Anyway just wanted to let you know I am back

I remember years ago having a power cut at my parents house. They live right in the middle of nowhere with nothing within a couple of miles of them and at the time i wasn't old enough to drive and my mum wasn't keen on taking me or any of my other siblings anywhere. We were without electricity over night and it was absolutely freezing. It was then that i learned to appreciated electricity more and i felt exactly as you do Brian.

I sort of wish we had a winter storm here, it has been incredibly mild this winter. We have had the odd morning of frost and only one day where it was white outside, although that lasted no more than a day. On Christmas day the temperature hit, i kid you not, a very warm 16C (60F)... it's almost never that warm in winter.

Overall we have had a fairly mild and dry winter. This all happened in the last week though where a fierce storm came in.

Yeah electricity good.

I had to run the air conditioning last night. Hehehe.

That is messed up, I am thankful for our furnace again.

I live in Bonney Lake, near Sumner and Puyallup. So more south than you. I think pierce county was one of the ones to get hit the hardest.

Yeah it does shut down, but this is the worst one I have been through in a long time, mainly just because it brought down so many trees and power lines. I never would have guessed that I would be without power for almost 4 days, and I am just in a suburb, not a rural area out in the middle of nowhere.

Usually when it snows around here we don't have power problems, but things still shut down due to all the people who have no idea how to drive in it, plus we have all sorts of hills and stuff.

I have seen freezing rain around here before, but not so widespread and intense like this. The last one I remember was when I lived in Enumclaw, probably about 12-14 years ago or so.

I have a few pictures I took of our deck attached. Notice in the first picture towards the top of the light post how thick the ice is:

Here's a pic of the cold here.



Brrrr. Heh.

Oh yeah, that looks terribly cold. Brrrrrr.

I'm going to move to Seattle... just so i can get a decent winter.

Well it looks like round two just arrived! Really strong winds this time and we just lost our power again! Barely had it back on for two days

Hey it was cold; it was like, 83 out during lunch here.

We had a nightmare flight out of Spokane WA when that storm was hitting. The plane we were suppose to get on was diverted to Boise, so they put us on another plane an hour after we were suppose to take off. Then they had to de-ice us which took 30 minutes before they announced we were having engine troubles (they wouldn't start!) so they pulled us back into the terminal for the two hour repair while we sat in our seats semi patiently. Next another 30 minutes de-icing procedure followed by an hour waiting for them to finish plowing the snow off the runway. We were set to arrive in Denver at 6:35 pm but it was well after 11 when we actually landed, and then there was the 4 hour drive to my parents house in Nebraska. Its normally a 20 hour drive from Montana to Nebraska, but flying this time too just as long!

Luckily our flight from Denver to Spokane was fast and uneventful. We even had clear skies when we flew over the Tetons and Yellowstone which was really cool.

Our power just came back again! Back in business.

That sounds like a horrible day kc0tma!

I'm right across the Skyway from Daemonguy, and I actually broke a sweat outside today.