We had a wind storm. See, I wanted quiet and I got it. No power, no cable & no phone. I need to wish for things more often
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Cleaning up after Western Washington wind storm
10/19/2007, 6:02 a.m. PDT
The Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) ?- Crews are cleaning up downed trees and repairing power lines after the wind storm that blew through Western Washington.
The storm is blamed for at least one death. A kite boarder was found dead in Lake Washington yesterday. In Kent a woman was hit on the head by a falling tree.
Thousands of people are still in the dark this morning with power outages. At the peak of the storm yesterday there were more than 300,000 without electricity. Puget Sound Energy says it still has 21,000 out and Snohomish County P-U-D about 8,000.
The National Weather Service reported gusts yesterday as high as 62 miles per hour.
The strong winds prompted the state Transportation Department to close the Hood Canal floating bridge for more than three hours.
The heavy weather has moved into parts of Eastern Washington. The National Weather Service has a wind warning today for the lower Columbia Basin, a wind advisory for the Yakima Valley, and winter storm warnings for the east slopes of the north Cascades, the Okanogan Highlands and northeast mountains.
Forecasters say after some wet weather this weekend, drier weather is expected early next week across Washington."
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