Thank you, City Light!

[freshwest]

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More Rain, Wind, Flooding, Landslides:

KING 5 - Jeff Renner - 12/11/14

Very strong, gusty winds tonight, easing after midnight.

A High Wind Warning is posted for most of western Washington. Gusts to 75 mph will be possible along the coast, 65mph for the NW interior, and to 60 mph over the Puget Sound region.

TONIGHT:

Mostly cloudy to cloudy with showers and possible thundershowers, in addition to locally damaging winds. Sustained winds of 20 to 40 mph are likely over Puget Sound, and 25 to 45 mph from Whidbey Island north. Peak gusts could reach 50 to 60 mph over the Sound, and 60-70 mph from Whidbey north. Winds are likely to begin diminishing after midnight to 2 am...

Wind 23mph S
Humidity 49%
Pressure 29.36"
Visibility 10mi
Currently 59°
Feels like 59°
Overcast

This has been building all week, with the wind gusting, lights blinking on and off until finally the darkness enveloped us, leaving us with only the sound of the wind and rain hitting the windows.

The power was off about an hour and the City Light crews just got it back on as is their job when the rest of us are dry and cozy, they are wet and cold, and handling potentially lethal power lines that cannot be tamed by anyone else through the night. Hearing the fire trucks barreling up and down the avenues... but for now we're out of the darkness:

Darkness, Darkness ~ The Youngbloods

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow
Take my head and let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence of your deep

Darkness, darkness, hide my yearning
For the things I cannot be
Keep my mind from constant turning
Toward the things I cannot see now
Things I cannot see now
Things I cannot see

Darkness, darkness, long and lonesome
Ease the day that brings me pain
I have felt the edge of sadness
I have known the depth of fear

Darkness, darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with the endless night
Take away, take away the pain of knowing
Fill the emptiness of right now
Emptiness of right now, now, now
Emptiness of right now

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow
Take my hand and let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence, the silence of your deep

Darkness, darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with the endless night
Take away, take away the pain of knowing
Fill the emptiness of right now
Emptiness of right now, now, now
Emptiness of right

Darkness, darkness!
Emptiness, emptiness!
Oh yeah

As always, feeling fortunate to be out of the elements. Happy Holidays.

[Cha]

1. Weather Watchers! I did know there was a such a Group on DU.. Mahalo

for the heads up, freshwest!

I know how exciting it is to get your Electricity back on.. staves off having our food spoil in the refrig.. plus we get online~

Thank you for the Youngbloods vid~

[steve2470]

3. glad you found us! nt

[Cha]

4. Yeah, with a link from freshwest.. I found ya~

[freshwest]

6. Thanks for visiting! Steve does a great job here and elsewhere.

Still, isn't this coming from Hawaii?

We call that southerly flow with lots of rain and wind the Pineapple Express.

Has the weather been calm or windy and rainy there?

[Cha]

7. the weather has been perfect, fresh.. I should have known steve was doing "the weather".. he

was always posting those hurricane watches in Florida back then.

[steve2470]

8. thanks freshwest! :) nt

[countryjake]

2. The blue house falling at the end of this is right across the street...

from my SO's sister's house. The family isn't sure their place is gonna make it thru the night...waves are unbelievable and wind is hurricane force.

That's the fourth house to wash away this week.

[freshwest]

5. What a wonderful place to live... So sorry they are getting washed away there.

[countryjake]

9. Well, they've had forty good years out there & it is called Washaway, after all.

The family has lived with that erosion since the sixties, when the dad bought the first piece of property, literally miles from the beach, and then the kids gradually each got a place, too. Another (in-law) relative's house went down around Halloween this year.

I've been with my man for 21 years and that very first walk we took down to the beach from his sister's place was at least two miles. Now the beach isn't much more than twenty feet away. I had a weepy moment when I first saw that video from KOMO that I posted...that double-decker pink porch house was once such a nice place, a landmark to me for when I'd get lost out there. Memories aren't so easily washed away. Yes, wonderful memories.