# What a (weather-related) mess!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 29, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-weather-related-mess/729334 "2015-08-29T21:48:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-weather-related-mess/729334/21 "2015-09-01T14:04:32Z")

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> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#):
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> I guess I’ve been out of touch… we’ve been paying attention to Hurricane Erika. Was this a typhoon, or just a hellacious storm?

I’ve hear nothing about Erika, other than something about flooding as I was listening to the radio on the way home. Apparently, this storm we had up here was a big one. I thought nothing of it Saturday; I’d seen worse. Much worse. But the radio said half a million people were without power at one point. Most of them got their power back very quickly. Though the storm seemed fairly tame to me at the time, I guess with the damage being so widespread it took a long time to get to all of the outages.

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-weather-related-mess/729334/22 "2015-09-01T15:47:56Z")

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It was particularly windy, and it’s been dry, so trees got a little brittle.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-weather-related-mess/729334/23 "2015-09-01T16:01:28Z")

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> [@garygnu](#):
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> It was particularly windy, and it’s been dry, so trees got a little brittle.

I didn’t think it was particularly windy up here. But then, I lived in the Mojave Desert for 11 years. In any case, it wasn’t as windy as I _have_ seen it up here. But yeah, it’s been very dry.

One thing I noticed is that the cedars seemed to have fared well. I see lots of maple debris. There are other trees that dropped a lot of limbs or snapped. I’m not sure what they are. Could be oak, could be birch, could be both. Some sort of broad-leaf tree anyway.

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**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-weather-related-mess/729334/24 "2015-09-01T16:28:35Z")

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My mom lives just south of Alger. We had several trees down during the storm, almost all of them Cottonwoods. The power stayed on. It flickered, but persevered. I was in Sedro Woolley on Saturday, and 3/4th of the town was without power. I don’t think it came back til Sunday afternoon.

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