If you’re wondering what’s been keeping me from posting then you may not know about the huge windstorm that hit the Seattle area on Thursday night (small photoset on Flickr). In a precursor to that storm, we lost power for much of Wednesday night thanks to a tree that came down a mile or so away. Then the electricity went out again Thursday night as the major winds came in. A large tree fell across our road taking the power lines with it. Our power stayed out until Monday evening when a crew came and reconnected the lines without bothering to move the tree first. We were very lucky to not suffer any property damage and we had the luxuries of hot water and a gas stove. Others were not as fortunate and there are many still without power. Driving around the area you can quickly see the scale of the destruction and understand why getting power back on has been such a huge task. A crew has been working around and on that tree on our road for over 24 hours now (perhaps not continously but they’ve been out there whenever I check) and it’s only one of many.