The graph at right illustrates the number of Puget Sound Energy and Seattle City Light customers without power due to the totally radical wind storm we suffered last Thursday night. In all, it's estimated that 1.5 million people lost their power. However, the greater Puget Sound err, region is served...
I'm glad that after all of the power shenanigans, the fact that my file server refused to boot was simply a fried power supply and not a (costly and pain-in-the-ass) toasted motherboard. So we're back online with an old power supply I found tossed in the corner of the garage....
After five days offline, I've finally got the server back up. The last two of these days have been spent with the server sitting in pieces while I get around to figuring out what's wrong with it—but the first days were spent completely without power. I'll be backfilling the details...
Even though we've now got power, the server isn't powering up. I'm not really sure why, at the moment—I've seen my old Intel SE440BX2 chipset refuse to power up after a mains loss, but pulling the battery backup on this machine hasn't yielded any positive results. It's likely that either...
Our neighbors in the subdivision next to us have had power since last night—but after 60-someodd hours with no electricy, we've actually got power back at the house! Hooray. Time to set all heaters on, "stun."...
It's fairly common that we take for granted how available and helpful heat is. We're sitting in our townhouse right now, heavily bundled against the low-40-degree temperature. It's cold. And it's certainly not the kind of thing I would have expected, say, last week. So far, we've been heating water...
I took some photographs yesterday of the damage here in northern Kirkland. Bear in mind that this area of Kirkland (specifically, Juanita Bay) is very gently nestled between two large hills. So the damage that you're seeing here is far less pronounced than that of the surrounding areas. We've heard...
This morning we, much like nearly a million other residents of the greater Puget Sound region, woke up without power. It turns out that record winds swept through the area and took down trees, power poles, and a whole lot else. Now, Layla and I have been listening to the...
