I remember that day well, i was home sick and it was the 3rd winter in my house up overlooking hood canal, the waves were all whitecaps and the fir trees were bending and cracking then i heard a huge crashing sound and looked out my front door only to see branches from a fir tree, the neighbors fir tree had blown over in the yard and just missed my porch roof and was laying in front , i was lucky no real damage but that was one huge windstorm.  

I missed this storm, sort of...  Drove my wife to see her father in the hospital at 5:00AM and came back to Lynnwood at 3:00PM.  While driving back from Vancouver B.C. I didn't quite realize that there were some gusts.   It was not that obvious going down I-5.  Once I got to Lynnwood and drove through town I was stunned.  My sister related what had happend and I was quite bumbed out that I missed it.

It happened during the Jack in the Box E Coli thing......up by my house, all the power was out and the only place that had power was a Jack in the Box.......even then, I ate cold soup rather then a hot meal from JITB.........

I remember that very well, lived in Woodinville at the time, we always lost our power for days during any wind storm. I remember walking home from school and i could hardly stand up. We had no power for 3-4 days. It was really fun as a kid to experiance that.

I remember this as if it was yesterday.  Living in Mukilteo at the time.  Navigating the trees and power lines on Bothell-Everett Hwy.  Even driving under some live lines.  (not bright in my younger days)  Trees on 405 around Eastgate/Kirkland when it was only two lanes in each direction.  No power for 3 or 4 days if I remember correctly.

 

Wonder how it compares to the '07 wind storm?  We had been staying in Lincoln City that weekend.  75mph early in the a.m.  Just made it North of Chehalis before I-5 closed to all traffic.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2007_Pacific_Northwest_storms  Still see blow-down in Pacific country from this storm.

We all know the real reason was all the hot air in Washington DC from the inauguration speeches.  I remember it well my wife was about to give birth, my second son will be 20 on Friday.  I was in a really stout building at Boeing and it was moving.  One of my coworkers had tiles blown off his roof.  Amazingly I never lost power.  The limbs all over the roads were amazing on my drive home from work.

Geez, I suddenly feel 20 years older.  We lived in Mountlake Terrace at the time and lost power for 6 or 7 days.  I was working out of an office on the Edmonds waterfront and watched Puget Sound going crazy.  I decided to leave when the plate glass windows that gave us our view began to rattle around. 

I was in an office tower in Seattle...coincidentally, the same one in which I now work. It was swaying and creaking in the wind.

It blew out the aluminum soffett panels under the roof near my front door. I keep meaning to fix that.

I was flying to Spokane for work that morning in one of those twin engine puddlejumpers.  We were sitting at the end of the runway and the plane started to roll backwards and the pilot jammed on his brakes.  It was the shortest take off roll I've ever seen.  We were airborne before we left the stripes on the beginning of the runway.  We also made Spokane in record time.

Seems like at least one Lake Washington floating bridge was closed for a time (SR520 I believe) due to the strong winds and a lot of traffic was trying to use SR522 to the north which was made worse by dark traffic lights there due to lost power in Kenmore and other places along that route.

These are the kind of storms that the rest of the country never hears about.

Oh yes! 2nd grade, moved to the classroom next door since our room's "old rabbit ears TV" (LOL) wasn't working, so we watched it next door, picture kept flickering, finally went out! LOL!

I was a crossing guard for my elementary school (in redmond) when this storm hit.  I was on the farthest crosswalk away from the school (the school was, and still is, in a very thick forest of trees).  I remember watching trees fall over and branches falling down around me while we stood our post.  Eventually they called us back to the school (you know, the wave your flag to the other flag holders thing) a bit earlier than normal. We spent the rest of the day in the school gym if I remember correctly, eventually going home early.

 

That day is burned into my brain and probably another big reason why I'm still addicted to wind and weather 20 years later.

Remember getting off work early, stopping in at a bar for a beer in the dark. nothing but candles

I recall this storm living in lake city up the hill from fred myers lost power for four days scary But exciting.

My daughter was only 3 weeks old that day!  I remember being home alone in Edmonds, holding my new baby girl with the wind going like crazy.  We were trying to watch the inauguration festivities when POOF!  Power went out!  We didn't have power for 5 days!