The wind is picking up and the lights just flickered twice. Don't know if we will lose power tonight but the front moving in is a strong one.
The good news is that the leaves are all off the trees (less wind loading) and the weak branches have mostly already fallen (keeping fingers crossed).
Cliff Mass has this from an hour ago:
Storm Nowcast
8:30 PM I don't know how long I will have connectivity: my power is flickering, strong gusts are periodically buffeting the house, and I can hear large branches snapping close by. Some flashes are visible on the horizon: a sure sign of blowing transformer fuses.
The gusts are amazing....you can hear them several seconds before they hit-- a roaring sound that grows closer and then arrives with my house groaning and the swish of air passing buildings and trees. Gusts are associated with the turbulent mixing of strong winds aloft down to the surface.
The latest Seattle City Light Windwatch wind map shows plenty of winds between 30 and 45 mph, and stronger winds have hit Sea-Tac, Olympia, and other locations.
Cliff posted a screen-cap of the Puget Sound Energy outage map from 8:30PM and it showed 11,491 people without power.
Looking at it now shows 67,171 with most around Olympia and North to Everett. 86 out in Deming - 12 miles due West of here. Like staring down the barrel of a gun...
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