The Pacific Northwest is now getting Cyclones (Pacific Hurricanes)
I think I speak for many PNW folks when I say we always thought that was more of a Florida thing.
On the off chance someone reading is feeling mildly irked by the bombastic language used to describe this fucked up weather, ysk ‘bomb cyclone’ is a technical term in use since the 50s and has a formal definition. TIL (and you can too!)
Or just scroll down OPs page to the Bomb Cyclone 101 link.
BC had gusts at almost 160 km/h from this beast yesterday and about 150K people lost power. At the last update I read, about 90K people were still in the dark.
Around 500k without power in the Seattle area.
(Posted in the dark as I’m told that we should expect power by around noon on Saturday.)
Hopefully this is one of those outages where you feel all cozy, light some candles, your blood pressure goes way down and you’re sharing what’s in your freezer with the neighbours, and not a freezing cold with mobility issues on the 21st floor kind of outage. Stay safe.
We lost power since 1 am last night. Even though we’re in a major city, we won’t have it back till noon tomorrow.
Fingers crossed it’s up and running again soon!
It came back at 7:45am. My housemate’s father is one of the linesmen that pulled a 16 hour shift. Huge thanks to them!
So I’m guessing they don’t mean “bomb” in the good way?
I’m afraid not. Not even in the “I’m Matt and I work in sales but my dream is to do standup professionally so I started going to dive bars in Chicago but get absolutely shit faced before I go up and decide I can just whiff it to an audience of 3 who are in the same boat and aren’t laughing because they are all reading their own notes” kinda way.
Oh, I thought it was like “bomb ass pussy,” but your way is also a way
Ah, I thought it was also like “cherry bomb firework” that fuckin rocked but yea that too
Lost power in Seattle Weds night and finished our D&D session by candlelight. It was kind of cool. I heard another one is on the way tonight.