Nope and had nothing to do with all the oil that has been burned or polluted the environment. Nope, not even that big ass fire ball that was burning under water for a while in the Gulf. Nope nothing with that at all.

It’s probably Biden’s fault or because of abortions, or because there is no more prayer in schools

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.)

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.

I'm afraid not. Not even in the "I'm Matt and I work in sales but my dream is to do standup professionally so I started going to dive bars in Chicago but get absolutely shit faced before I go up and decide I can just whiff it to an audience of 3 who are in the same boat and aren't laughing because they are all reading their own notes" kinda way.

Oh man I'm sorry that sucks. First thing I want when I get home from a trip is a meal :(

It is, and I think the novel thing about it is that it was a cyclone. Wind storms do happen out there and it's normal to see a few trees go down, but a bomb Cyclone is a completely different story.

In Oregon and Washington the standard used to be a pretty predictable "Columbus Day storm" in early-mid October. In the last 15-20 years it's been drifting later and later, but this year's is the latest I've ever seen, assuming that's what it is.