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A Boring Dystopia
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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.
Its definitely not
Interesting. Thanks!
Per NOAA, "In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, the term hurricane is used." Source. I thought that the appropriate term for a hurricane-like storm anywhere in the Pacific was "typhoon," but it appears that that is reserved for the Western Pacific. So continuing your trend of learning a thing about this and helping others learn it today too!
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!