*GASP* back online
December 17th, 2006 12:07:33 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
We lost power on Thursday along with over a million other Northwest households. It finally came back up last night after 50 powerless hours. I wouldn’t want to be a Puget Sound Energy employee over the past few days, or the next few either. Hats off to them.
We don’t have a generator here, so we relied on flashlights, candles, and the fireplace for light and warmth. Temperatures inside fell to below 50F, but we layered on and managed to stay warm enough.
We plugged in the lights on the Christmas tree so that was the first thing we saw when the power came back on. We cheered, only to have it go down about five minutes later. But then after about a 45-minute wait, it came back on for good (we hope).
Our thoughts go out to the hundreds of thousands of people in the area who are still without power. Especially since it was cold enough outside to frost this morning.
It will take me some time to get everything sorted out and back in blogness. Stay tuned. How are other Northwest bloggers faring? I see that the bay area may also be threatened. Hold on tight, folks.
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[...] Across Puget Sound from where I sit, TDavid blogs his side of the storm. Looks like the east side was also without power since Thursday night, but it’s getting restored. Back at you, TD. Stay safe. [...]
Hate to say it, Chip, but we lost power too – for about 5 seconds. Seriously.
(Felt very blessed – some were without power for 3 days.)
Happy to hear you missed the brunt of it, John. Hold on for the next storm, said to be brewing in the Gulf of Alaska.
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