It was a wind storm for the record books. About a half million people in western Washington don't have power this morning and there is much damage yet to be discovered when it finally gets light. We live on the edge of the most vulnerable West Seattle electrical grid, and felt lucky that ours only went out for a few hours in the middle of the night.
Most of our storms are predictable, coming in from the Pacific, but this whipped the wind from the other direction. It was unnerving hearing the rain and wind beating on the east side of the house.
So we're just slogging along through the miserable week. This heavy congestion seems to be "breaking up" which is good, but I sound like a hacking smoker in the morning.
We wasted most of the day yesterday taking my car back and forth to the Toyota dealer in Burien-- that's two hours of driving in heavy traffic. I will not waste more time here describing what happened, which is basically nothing. We dropped it off at 9, and by 2 pm so disgusted with the service department's total lack of communication (no one answered our calls or texts) we went back to get the car.
As it turned out, even making the service appointment days in advance, they didn't bother to order the replacement front door seal for the job. Nothing got done. I put packing tape along the seal to hopefully keep the water out for a while. I'll deal with it after Thanksgiving. Suffice to say, my next car won't be a Toyota.
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