I'm alive and well in Seattle. Thursday night was quite exciting - wind gusts to almost 70 mph. Didn't sleep much as the noise and worry about what might be blowing away kept us awake. Lights flickering on an off, but no long outages. But by next morning the wind had died down and nothing damaged at least in our neighborhood of NW Seattle. Other parts of the city power was out, and in a few parts it still is out. Have to be careful at intersections - a few still without lights. It's much worse on the east side, Bellevue, etc., and outside of Seattle with larger areas without power. This was said to be the worst wind storm in over 20 years here. But for the next week, at least, we are promised just boring weather, although a bit colder than normal.