Way Better Off

There is still no power in approximately 700,000 residences in the area.
The pictures and stories from around Puget Sound are alarming. A house that had 10 trees fall on it, a woman who drowned in her basement, a couple who died when a tree hit their car (on the highway), people dying or getting very ill from running generators in their homes, a large group of Somali immigrants who got carbon monoxide poisoning from using charcoal grills inside their apartments to keep warm, fights in lines at gas stations that are 2 hours long...and more. This is all happening not even 10 miles from us, yet our power never even flickered.

There are parts of Seattle that are still without power, but mostly it's the outlying suburbs east of the city and the areas on the peninsula that were the hardest hit - the areas where there are LOTS of huge trees.