We hear the power's out on 15th Ave this morning. Seattle City Light estimates it'll be back up by noon; they found a tree growing into a powerline. (That seems like a pretty fast-growing tree, to us, but we're not experts.) The outage area is from E Roy to E Pine, and from Summit to 29th, affecting about 4,000 people. We had thought the power outage might be storm-related, and this whole "tree, growing" angle......

Last night we were standing on our back porch-like thing (which is actually more related, in terms of dimensions, to a hallway except instead of a bathroom at the end of it there's a Weber) in Wallingford. It was raining and we were drinking a can of beer and wondering where all the T-storms and hail were. Never showed, Double Doppler. And we thought back on some of the heavy weather that did show up......

God dammit! We're in no way convinced carbon offsets are any kind of a solution to global warming, but the news that a King County court has decided that Seattle City Light can't use ratepayer's money to buy them pisses us off nonetheless. Their argument is that it should be general taxpayer money that saves the Earth, and that ratepayer money is for the operation of the utility. From the Seattle Times: The decision followed......

Seattlest's windchimes chimed last night. That's usually an indication that winds are stronger than average. Usually our chimes just sit there limp and dead. The windstorm that was promised for last night turned out to be tamer than anticipated, though, or at least our threshold for windstorms is set so high that anything below sustained 45mph winds now seems pretty weak. We're under the impression that if someone in Woodinville sneezes a forest of undecided......

At the Weather Underground there's a weather advisory for Wednesday night: ... A strong front will move through western Washington Wednesday night... A low pressure system was starting to develop far out in the Pacific today. The low pressure center will deepen rapidly tonight and Wednesday morning. The low pressure center is forecast to track toward the Queen Charlotte islands Wednesday night... so the effects of this strong low will just brush our area. However.........

The inhabitants of the Bering on 14th Ave E and E Thomas were delighted to see the Seattle City Light truck roll up last night around 4:30pm. We know because we called one of them, and he was all, "Fuck yeah, I'm delighted. You can quote me." But as you see from this picture we took this morning, these things take time. As Seattlest Seth has pointed out, the Seattle Times is covering the......

It seems everyone we've talked to who has had a prolonged outage has pretty much gone it alone. Hope you can find a generator and a few space heaters to buy, or a hotel room, or a friend's place, or a whole lot of blankets. That sucks, though - Our lights only flickered. You should call someone. Good luck! On the Mayor's website there's a video of a press conference he gave in response to......

It's been business as usual since the day after the storm in some Seattle neighborhoods. We eat, we drink, we Christmas shop, we gather all the shingles from the street and life goes on. Meanwhile, the Eastside continues to live red in tooth and claw. It's still mostly dark over there and crowds await Mel Gibson's next gasoline delivery at each service station. Hopefully it'll drive home how much energy it takes to power a......

We'd just stepped out of our shower this morning when the lights went out...went back on...went out...went back on...went out again. We had to put in our contacts by candlelight. Seattle City Light estimates there were 5499 other people sharing that experience with us. As of their 10:00am update: There is an outage in the east Capital Hill/ Roanoke Area. The cause is unknown. Seattle City Light crews are enroute. It is estimated there......

-That traffic snarl you're either about to experience or just experienced wil be/was caused by the funeral procession for the cop that got killed by the chick with the SUV. -Seattle City Light is carbon neutral for the second year in a row at a cost of about $2 per customer per year. -Did the Blue Moon finally read the graffiti on the bathroom wall and sign the dreaded Good Neighbor Agreement or did......

Ever since Mayor Greg Nickels sent out a letter back in mid-February about Viaduct replacement financing, everyone who pays attention has been trying to figure out the math. We're all used to spin from City Hall, but there was a huge, crucial problem. In the letter, Nickels claimed that, "Today, with $3.2 billion already committed to the project, we have the resources needed to start building the tunnel." That was an interesting claim, because as......

Seattle City Light offers a conservation program for businesses great and small. If only City Hall would look into it. The P-I reports today that the new, energy-efficient City Hall uses 15 to 50% more electricity (depending on the month) than the old one. This is doubly surprising given that the heating and cooling relies primarily on natural gas, not electricity. Seattlest urges City Hall to think of the salmon, and take action. It's well......

-Seattlest introduces you to the fantastic imagery available at Flickr.com via the Space Needle. -Mary Letourneau's wedding registry at Macy's is posted. -Parental Unit Gothamist turns two and Seattlest dredges up the past in celebration. -We get interested in Seattle City Light's biodiesel program. -Seattlest ponders: Ghostface, Bright Eyes or both? -Seattlest tracks the progress of our reality TV stars. -New contributor Chris is impressed with a fast solo circumnavigation. -Monorail economics and Simpsons tie-ins......

Seattlest met some guy over the summer who wanted to talk about the biodiesel operation he was planning in Georgetown. There was a warehouse and a giant vat and honestly Seattlest was only so interested at the time. Seattlest sometimes has interesting opinions on what's interesting and what's not when Seattlest is drinking. The truth is that biodiesel in Seattle is interesting, and the big yellow billboards (pictured) driving around downtown are doing a......