Western Washington and Oregon were hit badly by last week’s storm. We were out of power for almost 36 hours, pretty miserable. We were lucky to have candles, gas cans and stoves handy so that we can still have a hot meal. There are still a lot of areas without power. It was said this is the worst storm in decades, even worse than the one in 1993. Seattle Times and PI missed one day due to the power outage at the plant. Last time they missed were in 1953 and 1936 respectively.

Fortunately the weather calmed down and there was some good snow on the mountains yesterday so that we can spend the day skiing. We got the power back some time during the day yesterday.