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Originally Posted by Average_Joe
Hey, I just read about the big wind storm. Glad to hear everyone is well.
Does anyone remember the wind storm on Puget Sound in January, 1993. I was living in Seattle at the time, and I have never experienced anything like it! Power was out everywhere. It took me over an hour to get from my workplace in Bellevue (near Microsoft) to my apartment in Kirkland, a mere 5 miles apart. One of the floating bridges actually broke apart (I think). I never saw so many trees snapped in half in my life.
How did this storm compare to the 1993 storm?
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Casualty-wise, wind-speed wise, and power-outage wise (length and number of customers), this beats the Inauguration Day storm hands down. This storm now holds the windspeed record out at Sea-Tac. But they learned some important lessons from previous storms that led to the closure of the 520 bridge (because the Inauguration Day storm frayed them almost to the point of collapse) until it could be properly inspected, and the closure of the Tacoma Narrows bridge (the first time it's ever been closed for high winds since they built the existing bridge). A lot of us made it out easy, especially here in Oregon, but there are still people in places without power, namely because some major transmission lines went down during the storm. About 175,000 people are still without power, several days after the storm, and Puget Sound Energy says it may take up until the weekend to get everyone in the area back online.