Western Washington Wind Warnings

[malarkey]

Power still on in Seattle at 11:36pm, wind picking up big time. They said the big stuff starts around midnight, lasting till about 4am. Hang on!

[classicsporthorses]

Updates please are you all okay??

Hey, we saw the footage here on the east coast of you PNW. They say the worst winds are still to come-and you have had winds of 80mph already!

We're praying you are all safe!!

[jparkes]

If we lived on the east coast, there would be a name for this storm. Currently in the inland NW we are having sustained winds at 40mph with gusts over 60mph. I have ten horses on pasture and I'm not sure how this hay feeding will go this morning, it may all end up in the next county.

Unfortunately, our winds are not suppose to die down til past noon toady.

[MEP]

Reporting in from Leavenworth. We've had 2 ft of snow over what was already on the ground. Now the wind is really rolling in. I had to shovel a tunnel down to the barn, and tunnels for the donkeys in their paddocks. They don't like deep snow, and since they're minis, well, it's definitely over their legs and they could "belly-out". Sounds like things are starting to blow off the roof. better go now ....

[Kimberlee]

Well, just tried to call my mom, and no power since the answering machine did not pick up. Not a big surprise. They only have one horse at home now, and several dogs so they should be just fine on water. Not sure if my mom's new phone will ring if it does not have power to it. She got a fancy set-up this summer, and we have not tested it in a power outage yet.

Hope everyone up there is fine, and your power is back on soon.

[Kimberlee]

Yep, mom is out of power... and no her new phone system dosen't work, so she had to get to the phone at the other end of the house, LOL! She has checked on everyone, including their new border collie pup (who slept in the house last night) and everyone is fine. Lots of school closures today though.

[Calvincrowe]

Well, we survived--but more importantly, our 100+year old oaks survived!! No storm damage that can't easily be fixed, but we live on a bluff overlooking the Col. River and are quite used to strong winds, just not from the south. I'm sure the trees were asking themselves--what the heck is this?!

It was creepy watching the transformers light up the sky, but the PUD has done a great job of tree trimming to minimize power outages locally.

Horsepoor--good to know you were around to get things battened down at the barn! I'm sure my girly was far too concerned about her food to care about the wind. Of course, that place has too many things that could blow around for my taste. I just hope the arena did not get smashed by a tree!

I hope everyone is ok, and it looks like it is pretty much over for now, on the West side anyway. It got cold here, and now they are calling for snow showers! Neat!

[Lady Counselor]

Man you guys in the PNW are just getting slammed this year. First the flooding, now this. I hope this is the end of the crappy weather for all of you.

[Mtn trails]

We lost power last night at 8:30. In fact I was on COTH reading the new Parelli thread when the lights went out. There is justice in the world afterall. LOL.

We did fire up the generator for a little while so we had lights but headed to bed around 9:15.

Power came back up at 6:45 this morning when the TV comes on, lights come on, everything back up and running.

[Gunnar]

Take care everyone! You are in my thoughts as you brace for what mother nature is blowing your way!

[an elf 4 abrant]

Hoopoe Here

NO power for over 1 milion people including me

thankfully power at work so I can do what needs to get done and better yet, get some coffee.

Poor fish tank, I will try but don't hold myuch hope.

Trainer said a tree fell next to arena while she was riding, thank goodness for bombproof horses.

It will be a long weekend.

[didgery]

I struggled last night between leaving the horses out (in electric fencing ) or bringing them in (to a converted carport with nothing but horsefence and tarps on the south side). I brought them in but stayed up virtually all night with awful visions of the neighbor's trailers blowing across the road into Tanner and Blue. I checked on them every few hours and they seemed fine. Tarps are no longer a spook-inducer!

We lost a few branches here and there and few panels off the dog fence, but the horse amenities such as they are are all fine this morning.

We never lost power, which is wonderful . . . I fear for our hedgehog if we ever lose power for Tooo long as he has an electric heat lamp in his cage and it's barely warm enough even WITH our pellet stove on.

[catknsn]

We lost power last night with 3 horses in the arena:

Me, on my very herdbound 24 year old TB mare, the first time I pulled her away from her buddy in 2 months.

Shelly, on a broodmare who's been ridden about twice since she came in from the field, and Shelly has not ridden in 2-1/2 years.

And someone else longeing a horse they got for free because it was so crazy!

Boom, pitch darkness, so dark I could not see the fleabitten gray I was on!

I bailed off and had mine running around me. Shelly's got freaked out in the dark and struck at her. And the woman longeing had a total panic attack.

Reinforcements arrived with flashlights pretty quickly but, boy, the timing could not have been worse! So far, no major damage from the storm...just the canopy over the judge's area by the outdoor arena. Could have been worse!

[sylvan farm]

We survived the storm at NSF with minimal damage. But that's only because we got hammered during the recent snow storm (nearly 2 ft.) followed by a wind storm. That left us without power for 5 days. We had just finished clearing up the downed trees and fixing the road on Tuesday. Now we are without power again and the back-up generator is working keeping the water system running. Rumor has it that it may take more than 5 days for the power to be repaired this time. If true, we'll just have to buy another generator for lights, heat etc. Good news, all the horses including the field horses (they have large sheds) are all fine.

Hope everyone else is well and had minimal damage.

BTW, for those of you that haven't heard, Steve Sanville has relocated his h/j training business to North Star. We are pleased to have him and wish him the best.

[Hi Jump]

Holy smokes, 200,000 without power here and ours didn't even flicker and we are on top of a hill just a few miles off the ocean and get hammered by the winds. I think the previous storms took out a lot of trees and branches and I had only a gutter on the barn to put back up today.

Remember we had an absolutely blissful spring, summer and well into fall. Do you think we are finished paying for that this winter?

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[CrUsHpOnY]

Well i just got my power back! where i live is a mess...and of course my school was about the only one open...i was terrified driving in, i had to drive under about 4 or 5 trees being held up by power lines and 2 of the roads were completely blocked...the other i was driving over fallen power lines the entire way. no traffic lights were working and there was a crash in one of the intersections. 4 trees about 2 ft in diameter were across our drive way...and a tree fell on my friends house...but...

The good news is is that all the horses are safe and sound...they stayed inside today and may have to tomorrow (the turnouts are a mess) and it was clear they had all been pacing in circles in there stalls. i took my girl out for a long walk in the outdoor (the safest place) and let her stretch her legs...then did grain...so the ponies were happy. looks like tomorrow we may help our trainer hall hay because they hay people didn't come...so keep us western washington peoples in your prayers and all the jungles we can get!

[hoopoe]

My power came back on during the night so only 30 hours without.

The temps have fallen about 20 degrees so now it is freezing, I am so thankful that the heat is back on.

My fish tank seems OK. Getting cold and dark like that will likely start some breeding behavior, we will see.

I have been sick sick sick and have not gone to the barn yet. I will go out today and drop off the feed supply. I have not had any news one way or another from the barn, though no phone = no contact. I am sure if anything dire happened trainer would drive over to my place.

I hope it does not snow tonight, so far just cold.

hikers still missing on Mt Hood.

[TheJenners]

As far as I know, we still don't have power. I'm in town at some friends' house, took a shower so I don't smell like a barn before going to work and of course had the time to check COTH.

We had serious wind. Lost power about 2am Friday, I hear sustained in the 50s with gusts over 80mph. Only real casualty was an arena light snapped off...which is going to suck fixing. No power in our rural area ("rural" yeah right) yet, but hopefully soon. Cell towers lost power too, so we were pretty stuck until early this morning. The Navy base got its power, so should be soon...

[Bumpkin]

We got hit pretty hard, and spent the night in the Suburban up at Safeway.
No electric yet.
Mr Bumpkin is letting me post then back to reading COTHs.
I will be missing out on the barn party tonight, major bummer.

[hoopoe]

Well the farm did OK with little damage

Arena wall blew in on one quarter of the arena. It is a 3'6" kick wall. Luckily the mirrors are fine. Some flashing pulled up. Should be an easy fix.

A high tension power line came down across the paddocks. Again, thankfullly no fire no harm

Two patriarch trees in the woods next to the arena came down. These trees were where the Piliated Woodpeckers had their nest and attracted the swallows and swifts for night roost. Goodby grand old trees.

and since the temps dropped, everything is a bit frozen.