Damaging Ice Storm: Seattle/Olympia Area 1/20/12

[Flexmeister]

wow lots of fire wood

[coeliacus]

Do you have electricity?

[HoneymoonCampers]

Wow, lots of damage. Are you all thawed out now?

[2Humans1Dog1Cat]

@HoneymoonCampers Yes, the rains moved in and now most of the snow is gone. The power company is saying that power will be out in this area until Monday or Tuesday.

[salvadory]

here in north bend we finally got our power on after 3 days- the amount of trees down here is incredible- and last nights the winds were peaking at 60+- the ice storm was a definite reminder that mother nature answers to noone

[melcrdd]

ack! scary spider! but the ice is rly pretty!

[2Humans1Dog1Cat]

@melcrdd Haha, he was on our gate hiding under an icicle. Little bugger must have been cold.

[ronaldbonte]

i saw a tweet from The Templemans (if i'm correct) about the fact that some footage was used in the news, is that right? hopefully the cleanup isn't going to be too tough! looks like a big mess the weather made of the trees :( thank god nothing did hit any buildings!

[2Humans1Dog1Cat]

@ronaldbonte Yes, The Weather Channel asked us if they could use some of the footage in their news stories. We don't have TV where I am at, but Terry said he saw it this morning. It is going to be a bit of work cleaning everything up. Power is still out for most of our area and they are say it might be out until Monday or Tuesday.

[ScandinavianMom]

Do the trees break because of the weight of the ice or is it that the tree freezes all the way through? Nature can be so beautiful at the same time it is cruel.

[2Humans1Dog1Cat]

@ScandinavianMom They were breaking because of all the weight of the ice and snow on their branches. The trees in our area grow really fast and have very long and big branches that aren't ment to hold up a lot of weight. Most of the trees that came down were smaller weak ones and softwood trees that don't usually hold up very well when it comes to storms.

[ScandinavianMom]

@2Humans1Dog1Cat Thank you for taking time to answer me :) I absolutely love your videos!

[NobodysOffTheHook]

CRAZY! I'm really glad nothing hit the house! Haven't seen the cat in a while. :(

[2Humans1Dog1Cat]

@NobodysOffTheHook Yeah, I'm very glad nothing hit the house. The cat is doing well. I'll have to put him in a new video soon.

[JonathanCM1991]

My power is still out... Been 3 days so far.

[2Humans1Dog1Cat]

@JonathanCM1991 Same here. Last I heard it will be Monday or Tuesday before it is back on.

[coeliacus]

Great footage! Thanks for sharing!

[2Humans1Dog1Cat]

@coeliacus Thanks for watching.