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To: zeta1961 who wrote (1208)	12/19/2006 9:26:44 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1336

A few weeks ago, I spent $1200 to take down two huge fir trees down on my neighbors lot--within spitting distance of my front porch to the south. Best money I ever spent--we might have been crushed. The two trees I had felled had been in a cluster of four trees: Two trees on the windward side of the cluster were taken down in the summer to make room for a house... My boss lives up in the forest and his house has been badly damaged, structural problems and all. My power was out while we slept one night, that was it. But I ran an errand one evening and found that there was a street still without power not to far from me-- a couple days after the wind (I unplugged my outdoor Christmas lights when I got home). I have a buddy who is living at our office because the power is still out at his house. It was quite a storm--very well simulated by the computer models. My old professor was quoted in the paper here before the storm: seattletimes.nwsource.com Or as University of Washington meteorologist Cliff Mass puts it, we're about to be stung by the "poisonous tail" of a nasty low-pressure system. "There's absolutely no doubt this storm will happen," he said. "The only question is how strong will it get." The storm was similar to the Inauguration Day storm of 1993. seattletimes.nwsource.com Cliff Mass again: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport did post a record wind speed of 69 mph early Friday. In 1993, winds reached 64 mph at the airport. But of the six other weather stations Mass checked, from Everett to Renton, four recorded higher wind speeds in 1993.