Storm update
Dec. 18th, 2006 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenkMe: Work has power. Home does not. Home lost power Thursday night about 10pm, so we're on day 4 at this point. A friend brought over his generator yesterday for a few hours, which let us kick up the freezer temp back down & the house temp back up. Our freezer has a warning light for when the temp is too high which did not turn on when we plugged the freezer into the generator yesterday, so yay.
General region:
In terms of infrastructure, most of Seattle's back up. Most of downtown Bellevue through Microsoft campus - including the Overlake commercial area (156th-140th x 24th - 20th) - is back up ... which means many of our neighbors can at least shower and have a hot breakfast at work :) Some of Kirkland is up - I would think the area around Evergreen Hospital near Totem Lake, but I haven't checked. Downtown Redmond is up, which not only is convenient for me in terms of hitting area restaurants or the library for food, phone recharge and internet, but also it's the home of the wells which provide Redmond with water (I assume the well pumps have backup generators with limited supplies of gas).
So yeah, we're holding out. Hope all is well with y'all....
General region:
We've made good progress repairing the backbone transmission system. So far, we've repaired about half of the 85 transmission lines taken down by the storm, and by re-routing power loads, we've re-energized 129 of the 159 substations that lost power from the storm. As we continue to work on restoring the local power-distribution system, we will be able to develop more community-specific information. - from http://www.pse.comOn the "still a few more days" list: Cougar Mountain in Bellevue, rural Woodinville, parts of North Bend, Snoqualmie, Duvall, Carnation and Skykomish in east King County, Issaquah, Lake Hills in Bellevue, Fall City, Fairwood, Lake Youngs and possibly others. (Source: PSE & the Seattle Times) I guess I can be glad Redmond isn't on that list....
In terms of infrastructure, most of Seattle's back up. Most of downtown Bellevue through Microsoft campus - including the Overlake commercial area (156th-140th x 24th - 20th) - is back up ... which means many of our neighbors can at least shower and have a hot breakfast at work :) Some of Kirkland is up - I would think the area around Evergreen Hospital near Totem Lake, but I haven't checked. Downtown Redmond is up, which not only is convenient for me in terms of hitting area restaurants or the library for food, phone recharge and internet, but also it's the home of the wells which provide Redmond with water (I assume the well pumps have backup generators with limited supplies of gas).
So yeah, we're holding out. Hope all is well with y'all....
