[Joey]

Snipped from NOAA forecast discussion this morning. I plan to spend all day outside on our place doing chores best done in dry weather. “Former Typhoon Songda will bring more wet and windy weather to Western Washington this weekend, and it poses a threat of a major Western Washington windstorm. The latest ECMWF solution looks especially threatening, with the low deepening to 966 mb off the coast of Oregon and tracking northeast right across Western Washington Saturday night. The GFS and Canadian models have a deeper low -- around 952 mb -- but keep it further west, tracking northeast across northern Vancouver Island. Even this solution could result in a windstorm though.”

[treeswarper]

Yes, today will be spent "clearing the decks" and battening down things like the aluminum siding covering the woodpile. And topping off water containers-my well won't work when the power is off. The hot tub is full of flushing water though.

[thunderhead]

Thursday night/early Friday also. Computer modeled winds/precip are currently pretty similar for the two systems.

[iron]

i guess it's a bad time to not have an exterior door... damned remodeling.

[InFlight]

[Snowday]

From Cliff Mass's blog: Warning: Major Storms Threaten the Pacific Northwest

[David Cole]

So much for my planned Chain Lakes Loop hike on Saturday. Good news: The waterfalls and rivers in the Cascades should be raging. Bad news: You might get killed trying to reach them.

[Token Civilian]

Hmmm....hopefully last year brought down all the weak trees and next year is only an "average" for blow down on the trails. It would suck to have back to back heavy blow down years. The only upside it does allow one to polish ones sawing skills.

[Schroder]

[Joey]

Well if you lose power for 1/2 hour and your life is not otherwise disrupted, then no big deal. On the other hand, after the 1993 Inauguration Day windstorm we did not have power for 6.5 days. Our neighborhood is 4 miles NE of downtown Redmond. Sometime after a major wind storm the power company will likely send out 2-truck teams to survey the damage. If your neighborhood is declared one of the "hardest hit" (typically because poles need to be replaced) then you go to the end of the line for repair. This enables the power company to get the most people back online the fastest. All things considered though, we get by reasonably well in an extended outage. We are on city water with gravity septic. Also we have a woodstove and generator. One thing I still need to do is connect with an electrician so I can have a small transfer switch installed just for the oil furnace blower. Typically we would just run the oil furnace blower on low rpm since that helps to circulate the woodstove heat through the house. Of course in the morning after the generator is running it would be nice to run the oil furnace for a bit while the woodstove is getting going.

[iron]

joey: which woodstove do you have? i agree re: the generator switch. would be nice to hook things up to the house panel. our area (kenmore) loses power on blue sky days with no wind...

[treeswarper]

I need to download some books. I am a bookaholic and about went crazy during one flood event when I was cut off from the library. Since then, I buy emergency books to have and now can download too. I guess I've got everything ready. I might move a pickup so I don't have everything where one falling tree could smoosh it.

[Joey]

[ranger rock]

• Heavier accumulations of 5 or more inches are possible especially along the south facing slopes of the Olympic mountains Wednesday night through Thursday. Oh boy, it's going to be interesting around here. I hope we keep our power since my spouse is on oxygen.

[Bedivere]