Four die in storm; one million without power

We never lost power here at the office, but my grandparents (where I stayed last night in case 520 were to close, and it did!) lost power at 10:45p last night. And, from what I understand, most if not all of Kirkland is in darkness as well. 1 Million WA state residents without power! 700,000 of those effected are customers of PSE. And power could be out for days, even up to a week in some areas. The worst power outage I've seen since 1995, when living in South Everett, we were out of power and no school for almost a week.

Four die in storm; one million without power
11:20 AM PST on Friday, December 15, 2006

SEATTLE - A deadly wind storm blasting Western Washington has claimed four lives, closed major bridges and knocked out power to 1 million homes and businesses. At 5 a.m. Puget Sound Energy was reporting power out to some 700,000 people. At 6:30 a.m. Seattle City Light said it now has 171,000 customers without power -- that's over half its customers. And half their feeder lines are down. "If it's not the largest outage (in our history), it's close to it," said spokeswoman Suzanne Hartman.

Winds gusted to 74 mph at the Hood Canal floating bridge, which links the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas, 63 mph at the Evergreen Point floating bridge, one of two linking Seattle with the suburbs east of Lake Washington, 70 mph at Westport on the coast and more than 50 mph in downtown Seattle.

SOURCE:
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_121506WABfri_stormDS.f96a826.html