LeeAbe
4515
1-2” here in Mill Creek/Bothell area. Right as I was getting up to get ready for work power went out. Of course the heat had been off/low all night, I didn’t charge anything, etc. Shut down computers and using UPS to keep the aquarium going. Using cats as hand warmers.
Long boring day ahead it looks like.
Looks about the same amount around Martha Lake. I was in Southeast Everett last night and it was coming down a lot harder. The difference 4-5 miles makes.
Still have power and heat. Not going anywhere today.
LeeAbe
4517
Got power back after an hour and a half. Got to say PUD is always really good. Don’t have a lot of power problems, but when we do it’s never more than a couple of hours.
I work in Seattle, we have 2 hour late reporting, but I am taking a vacation day. Not standing out in the cold waiting for buses.
Kyrios
4518
It hit 74 at Logan yesterday! The Sat-Sun overnight low was 64! My wife had a mom’s group brunch yesterday and they were out on the damn deck, in January. Ridiculous.
No power on Bainbridge Island, 2-3 inches of snow.
Up here in Edmonton we’re having a cold snap all week. Highs of -25c (-13f) and lows of -32c (-26f), that’s not including wind chill. This is typical we get these so we are used to them.
RichVR
4521
86F in Orlando yesterday. Climate change? What’s that?
Nesrie
4522
I am ready for snowpocalypse which is supposed to happen any time now.
Lost ours in Poulsbo at about 6:15 this morning. Previous owner left a generator to run the well/septic but I haven’t managed to start (have tried with battery and pull start)
Our well is a community thing and it’s on our neighbors property. They don’t have a generator so when the power goes out we have no water. That sucks.
Only a dusting out by me in West Seattle and it seems to have mostly melted off by this point. But sounds like there may be more on the way so, we’ll see I guess.
Nesrie
4526
Is that typical for where you are at?
Yes, we are pretty rural and almost everyone is on a well. Most have generators at the pump house though. I’ll need to chat with the neighbors once this storm is over.
Yeah, a communal pump house really needs a back up generator.
Nesrie
4529
Let me restate. We have a wells here too, and the old death ranch I lived on had a well, but it was on our property. I guess what has me curious is the sharing of the well. Around here, the more likely scenario is you have like 5 neighbors all sharing a water source, but the wells are individually owned.
Yeah probably.
We have 5 houses on a shared well. The pump house is on one neighbor’s property. Agreed on the need for a generator.
I love Bainbridge. It’s one of my long-standing fantasies to move out there but my wife would never go for it.
Yes, I have boring fantasies, what of it?
We really liked it when I was stationed out at Bangor, 25+ years ago. At the time there was no way we could afford it. When opportunity came to relocate from SoCal, it was one of the first places we looked. I loved the commute into Seattle: 35 min ferry ride and a short walk to work. It was awesome.
My current commute to Santa Monica is a bit more challenging.
Ha, ok you win. When I was at Microsoft one of our VPs commuted to Redmond from Bainbridge which just sounded like the commute from hell. I guess he agreed; he didn’t hang around long.
I knew a guy who commuted from Poulsbo to Bellevue everyday by bus/ferry. Brutal doesn’t even begin to describe it.
