Windy weather stories

I was sound asleep when I was awaken by a sound. I think it was the wind. I went back to sleep. WHEEEEW, that was something!

At 2 in the morning, December 15th, we heard a thunderous crack. I went out to see what occurred. One of our trees had fallen and crushed our neighbors' two cars. Didn't get much sleep after that.

One of the beautiful large trees, one block from the zoo on 57th is split right down the middle but hasn't fallen over yet. It's tragic since it's an Olmsted designed street layout.

Slept through the worst of it, never lost power in downtown Seattle.

Was walking to work this morning and saw no less than 5 cars crushed by GIANT trees that had been ripped right out of the ground. (First Hill) Was also without power this morning.

We live near Greenlake and our power went out around 10pm last night. At one point, I looked out the window and jokingly told my husband that our gazebo looked like it was trying to take off. This morning it was sitting about 20 feet away from it's original spot.

I was awakend by a LOUD explosion at 5:00 AM and a flash so bright that I saw it through my closed eyelids while I was asleep. I thought my car pooler was giving me a gentle reminder. It turned out to be a blown transformer across the street.

I live on the corner of Eastlake Ave. E and Harrison and the entire side of my 100 yr. old apartment building, The Grandview- is lying in the parking lot. The entire brick wall came down. It looks like it got bombed. I feel like I just lived through a WWII air raid.

My little sister and grandfather were flying from San Francisco to Portland to visit my parents. The plane could not land in Portland and was re-routed to Seattle. My boyfriend picked them up at midnight to stay at my house, and my parents drove from Portland at 7:00 AM. Crazy.

I made the grave mistake of driving to the Hawks game (on a motorcyle) from Ballard. I feel like I got a tour of the worst parts of the storm by inching past miles of deadlocked traffic, downed limbs and knee-high whitewater just pouring down roadways and gushing up out of stormdrains. The miles of misery from 15th ave, elliot, over Queen Anne to Dexter and Westlake and on through downtown took me an hour and a half, even cutting through traffic. I have never seen Seattle roads or water-drainage issues this bad in my entire life!

I got a text message from my parents in Idaho (just east of Moscow) at around 2:30 a.m. They had six mature ponderosa pine trees down; one of which had completely crushed their kitchen, and was putting additional pressure on the roof (the ceiling in other parts of the house are apparently sagging). They have lived there for 30+ years and never have seen anything quite like last night.

My poor wife left MosesLake at noon to drive to our home in port Ludlow. She never made it. First a spin out on I-90 Ellensburg, then a long delay getting over the pass. Downed power lines and trees on Bainbridge, finally the Hood Canal bridge closed before she could cross. She ended up all the way back to GIG Harbor in a hotel which had power and boasted a generator back up. Yes the power went out and no generator. Its almost 11:00am and she still has not arrived. She decided to shop till she dropped.

One of the street lights in my neighborhood went completely off the pole and down the street. I never heard such wind in my life even when I was stationed in Virginia during hurricane season!

Residents of at least one building in my apartment complex, Emerald Ridge in Bellevue, were also evacuated last night when a tree crashed through a third story apartment at approximately 1 am last night.

One of our cars was also damaged by another fallen tree.

My neighbor's 50-foot evergreen tree was uprooted, root ball and all, tearing up the sidewalk in the process. Meanwhile, all my holiday yard decorations are still intact! Now, if I could just have power...

I was flying into SeaTac around 9pm. We hit the windstorm over the Cascade mountains before it arrived in Seattle. I have never experienced such severe turbulence before with three significant drops in altitude, rolls back and forth and wind beating loudly against the plane like a speed boat hitting the wake of another boat. People were actually screaming and throwing up. We rolled side to side as we approached but finally landed in a thump.
It was an experience I'll never forget

Consequences of the storm are reaching even as far as sweden, which we discovered when we gathered for some online gaming, but we haven't got in contact for hours. It seems like the servers are that are running the gaming network are somewhere in the Seattle area.
We wish to extend our thoughts and support to you at this troublesome time.