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We heard from CHS that a truck had hit a power line at 12th Avenue and East Aloha, so we just ran up to check. It's a semi that has broken off a huge tree branch, which in turn snagged a power line. So now the semi, branch, and downed line are waiting for a Seattle City Light crew to arrive and untangle them. In the meantime, East Aloha is closed to traffic between 12th and 13th. We suspect it'll be closed at least an hour or two, given the ticklishness of the situation.

Kim is off to the Fremont Abbey tonight to catch one of PDX's finest singer-songwriters, Laura Gibson, in action. She will spend the rest of the weekend napping, baking, and watching movies. Sunday night, she'll emerge from her lair for Jenny Owen Youngs at the High Dive.

Popular Science released its list of the 50 Greenest cities in the U.S. recently. Of course, liberal, green Seattle was on it. We came in eighth. It surprised no one at Seattlest HQ, however, that our neighbor to the South, namely Portland, came in first since some of us believe that Portland is better and we all love PDX regardless.

There's no danger--they are in contact with the outside world and if they need supplies, City Light will helicopter some it. But they'll probably first finish what they've got.

Last night we were standing on our back porch-like thing (which is actually more related, in terms of dimensions, to a hallway except instead of a bathroom at the end of it there's a Weber) in Wallingford. It was raining and we were drinking a can of beer and wondering where all the T-storms and hail were. Never showed, Double Doppler. And we thought back on some of the heavy weather that did show up as promised in the past few months. In fact some of the shingles that were blown off of the house up the street during the wind storm are still down there in the back yard, nearly completely covered by the spring grass. That violently diagonal stump a few houses up the hill? Still there. Still more unearthed than not. And this is relatively lightly winded Wallingford. They're probably still running on battery power in Duval.

God dammit! We're in no way convinced carbon offsets are any kind of a solution to global warming, but the news that a King County court has decided that Seattle City Light can't use ratepayer's money to buy them pisses us off nonetheless. Their argument is that it should be general taxpayer money that saves the Earth, and that ratepayer money is for the operation of the utility.

Seattlest's windchimes chimed last night. That's usually an indication that winds are stronger than average. Usually our chimes just sit there limp and dead. The windstorm that was promised for last night turned out to be tamer than anticipated, though, or at least our threshold for windstorms is set so high that anything below sustained 45mph winds now seems pretty weak. We're under the impression that if someone in Woodinville sneezes a forest of undecided trees will hurtle themselves at feeder lines, but we're not hearing reports of a lot of new damage today outside of a Q13 story on West Seattle this morning. Here are the outages Seattle City Light currently recognizes.

At the Weather Underground there's a weather advisory for Wednesday night:

The inhabitants of the Bering on 14th Ave E and E Thomas were delighted to see the Seattle City Light truck roll up last night around 4:30pm. We know because we called one of them, and he was all, "Fuck yeah, I'm delighted. You can quote me."

It seems everyone we've talked to who has had a prolonged outage has pretty much gone it alone. Hope you can find a generator and a few space heaters to buy, or a hotel room, or a friend's place, or a whole lot of blankets. That sucks, though - Our lights only flickered. You should call someone. Good luck!

King County Journal has the rundown of which areas are still without power, and when they're likely to get it.

It's been business as usual since the day after the storm in some Seattle neighborhoods. We eat, we drink, we Christmas shop, we gather all the shingles from the street and life goes on. Meanwhile, the Eastside continues to live red in tooth and claw. It's still mostly dark over there and crowds await Mel Gibson's next gasoline delivery at each service station. Hopefully it'll drive home how much energy it takes to power a 4000 square foot mcmansion full of today's technological wonders when someone's got to wait in line for gasoline to feed the generators. Hey, Eastside, maybe if you didn't try to cheap out of your property taxes by living near the city instead of inside of it you wouldn't be in this mess right now. Something you might want to think about next time the socialist tax collector comes around.

We'd just stepped out of our shower this morning when the lights went out...went back on...went out...went back on...went out again. We had to put in our contacts by candlelight. Seattle City Light estimates there were 5499 other people sharing that experience with us. As of their 10:00am update:

You couldn't drive Rainier Ave. much of yesterday after a sailor drove his Beamer into a telephone pole Saturday night, killing himself and three fellow Navy men.

-"Runaway Train was the best song of the 90s." "You're fucking high, old man."

Ever since Mayor Greg Nickels sent out a letter back in mid-February about Viaduct replacement financing, everyone who pays attention has been trying to figure out the math. We're all used to spin from City Hall, but there was a huge, crucial problem. In the letter, Nickels claimed that, "Today, with $3.2 billion already committed to the project, we have the resources needed to start building the tunnel."

The man who brought the Space Needle to Seattle is resigning his position as City Councilman. Jim Compton, who was elected to the City Council in 1999 because he used to be on the TV, is stepping down to teach in Egypt and Romania. Or maybe after a heartwarming montage, it will be his students who teach him---how to love again.

Seattle City Light offers a conservation program for businesses great and small.

-Seattlest introduces you to the fantastic imagery available at Flickr.com via the Space Needle.

Seattlest met some guy over the summer who wanted to talk about the biodiesel operation he was planning in Georgetown. There was a warehouse and a giant vat and honestly Seattlest was only so interested at the time. Seattlest sometimes has interesting opinions on what's interesting and what's not when Seattlest is drinking. The truth is that biodiesel in Seattle is interesting, and the big yellow billboards (pictured) driving around downtown are doing a good job of bringing vegetable-based fuels into Seattle's conciousness, even if they are only a tiny fraction of the fleet.