West Seattle, Washington
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West Seattle has another centenarian! Marie Prichett‘s family shared the photo and report about her 100th birthday celebration:
Surrounded by friends and family members who came from Seattle, Southern California, and points in between, Marie made a stylish grand entrance in a midnight-blue lace cocktail dress. A sit-down dinner was served, complete with birthday cake, and there was live music from the Roaring Twenties by “The Double Barrs.”
Born in Spokane in 1916, Marie graduated from the University of Washington in 1937. She married the late Cecil Prichett in 1940, and they had two children, Jack and Anne. Marie has four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Marie taught school, first in Bellingham and later in California, retiring in 1977. She moved from Oakland to Seattle in 2004 to be near her family. Marie has traveled all over the world, including extended solo travel in retirement, after Cecil died. These days, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, and regularly participates in games and social activities at Brookdale.
What does Marie say is the secret to long life? “Good luck,” and she wishes good luck to everyone.
Marie’s 100th birthday party was on October 8th at Brookdale West Seattle. We love to share community members’ milestones – editor@westseattleblog.com – thanks!
(WSB file photo from a past Duwamish Alive! event)
If this isn’t already on your calendar – the Duwamish River will benefit from just a few hours of your time next Saturday (October 22nd). Five sites along the river and in its watershed are in need of volunteers for the fall edition of Duwamish Alive!, 9:30 am-2 pm on Saturday. It’s one of the two days each year when hundreds of people volunteer to help our area’s only river. Here’s how:
Join our community effort to restore native habitat within the Duwamish Watershed on Saturday, October 22nd, while celebrating the connection of our urban forests to our river and salmon. Starting at 10:00 am volunteers will gear up at multiple Duwamish sites including one of our largest urban forests – the West Duwamish Greenbelt – to participate in planting and removing invasive weeds in an effort to keep our river alive and healthy for our communities, salmon and the Puget Sound. Volunteers are still needed at:
Pigeon Point Park
Roxhill Bog, headwaters of Longfellow Creek
Delridge Wetlands, tributary of Longfellow Creek
Longfellow Creek at Greg Davis Park
Herring’s House Park, along the river
(outside West Seattle) Hamm Creek/Duwamish Substation, along the riverTo volunteer, visit DuwamishAlive.org to see the different volunteer opportunities and RSVP to the contact for the site of your choice, or email info@duwamishalive.org
Other work sites include a river cleanup by kayak, shoreline salmon habitat restoration, and native forest revitalization while enjoying our autumn. Families, company groups, clubs, individuals, schools, community organizations, are encouraged to participate, and no experience is necessary.
The workday at all 15 sites begins at 9:30 with volunteer sign-in and concludes at 2 PM. Refreshments, tools, and instructions will be provided. All ages and abilities welcomed.
Two weeks until Halloween, and dozens of special events are on the way. As of early today, our annual West Seattle Halloween (etc.) Guide is up, so you can find them all in one place: Not just trick-or-treat events, but fall festivals, haunted houses, costume contests, pumpkin carving, bar parties, Dia de Los Muertos events, nd more. The guide is at westseattleblog.com/halloween. The guide will continue to evolve between now and November 1st – adding events as we hear about them, and removing the ones that have already happened – so keep checking in. And if we’re missing YOUR public seasonal event – please send info as soon as you can – editor@westseattleblog.com – so we can add it; thank you! (Photo: Reader-contributed jack-o-lantern pic from past Halloween)
(SDOT MAP with travel times/video links; is the ‘low bridge’ closed? LOOK HERE)
(Click any view for a close-up; more cameras on the WSB Traffic page)
7:02 AM: Good morning! No incidents reported right now in/from West Seattle.
7:30 AM: Just spun through the live video feeds from the city map – all WS views look OK.
As for road-work alerts – the city called off the Harbor Island closures for the Spokane Street repaving project last weekend because of weather concerns, so we’re waiting to hear where that stands this week. Admiral Way striping west of California still has some work to be done, particularly at the Alki end of the project zone. If you see any other road work of note, please let us know, when you can, since it’s not all pre-announced … 206-293-6302 text or voice, editor@westseattleblog.com e-mail – thank you!
10:11 PM: Police and fire are responding to a house near 14th and Roxbury. It’s an “assault with weapons” call on the SFD log but we haven’t heard whether there’s a victim. We are hearing that police are blocking off traffic in the 14th/15th/Roxbury area, so please avoid that area TFN. More to come.
10:23 PM: Per scanner, police have gone in and determined there’s no victim. They’re now trying to sort out whether the call was a hoax.
Checking the city land-use files to see what’s new, we find an early-stage proposal for a mixed-use building in The Admiral District, in the system as 2715 California SW but with a site-plan document showing 2719 California is also part of it. It’s described as a “four-story mixed-use project with residential apartments over ground floor commercial space and below-grade parking accessed from the alley” and listed as expected to go through the Design Review process. The site, across from Hiawatha, currently holds three small commercial/residential buildings. (Side note: This is the same block of California, between Lander and Stevens, where the PCC site is slated to be redeveloped, a few buildings to the south.)
Thanks to Kennedy for the photo sent this weekend. These birds are on the doors of the new New Luck Toy, the “dive bar”/Chinese restaurant expected to open soon at 5905 California SW, previous home to Chopstix, Pan Africa Grill, Ho-Win, and going back even further, other restaurants including Bite of China and China King. We are checking to see if a date is set yet; proprietors including Ma’ono‘s Chef Mark Fuller were hoping to open this month, when we last checked in.
P.S. Along with the birds on the door, there’s a dragon out back.
Thanks to Kevin for e-mailing (editor@westseattleblog.com) that photo of a coyote spotted near 50th SW and SW Walker [map], around 10 am today. Not far from greenbelts, but over the nine years we’ve been publishing sighting reports (all from WSB readers except this one), we’ve had many relatively far from greenbelts, too. We publish them as an informational reminder that they’re out there, and you should read up on experts’ advice for coexistence – making sure they have no reason to hang around too close or for too long. The best advice is here.
The family of Judi Campbell White is sharing this remembrance with the community:
Judith Elizabeth Campbell White, 76, of Federal Way, passed away peacefully on October 13, 2016 after a four-year battle with uterine cancer. Judi is survived by her loving husband Dennis; siblings Nancy and David; children Erin (Sean), Mike, Gillian, Mat, Tim (Lorrie); grandchildren James, Nicole, Josh, Alex, Rachel, Kaylei, and Caden; sister-in-law Juanita Lavallee; numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins; and her sweet little dog Tazzy.
Preceding her in death was her beloved mother Marion Pomeroy.
Judi was a business owner, avid reader, gardener, card player, had a beautiful singing voice, and was a devoted sports fan who enjoyed watching the Huskies, Mariners, and Seahawks. She will be remembered fondly as “West Seattle’s mother of all baseball moms,” carting all of her kids to practices/games/camps in West Seattle and beyond, and for having one of the most enthusiastic voices in the stands.
Judi was a true beauty inside and out and was never heard uttering an unkind word about anyone. She will be deeply missed by her family and everyone who knew her.
(WSB publishes West Seattle obituaries by request, free of charge. Please e-mail the text, and a photo if available, to editor@westseattleblog.com)
In the final days of Hispanic Heritage Month, which concluded this weekend, Westside School (WSB sponsor) in Arbor Heights held a schoolwide celebration led by middle-schoolers. After an opening presentation, elementary students went to stations around the auditorium and upstairs landing where older students were standing by for mini-presentations, either about a Spanish-speaking country, or a famous person of Hispanic descent. At each station, a visiting student could “press a button: to have the presentation given in either Spanish or English.
Here’s a sixth-grader portraying tour guide Celestina, talking about Equatorial Guinea:
She and other 6th graders gave presentations about history and culture of Spanish-speaking countries, while 7th graders represented current-day people of Hispanic heritage, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor:
8th graders represented historical figures, including Argentina’s Eva Perón:
The 7th and 8th graders were all prepared with autobiographical presentations about those they portrayed. The students are all learning Spanish with Westside teacher Mary Kratz.
Thanks to Darrell for the photo from a bus-car collision at 8th and Roxbury about half an hour ago. No SFD callout, so apparently no injuries of note. We just went by; the intersection is clear, and the bus is off to the side on NB 8th north of the intersection with Metro supervisors.
12:19 PM: Thanks for the photos/tips! Fairmount Avenue is blocked through the canyon/ravine by a fallen tree, so avoid the area for a while – we’ll check a bit later to see if it’s cleared.
2:44 PM: Finally made it there to check. All clear now.
10:28 AM: For water-watchers: Longtime WSB’er MIWS (Mike) tips us that the small private ferry serving Herron Island in the South Sound, Charlie Wells, will be passing West Seattle a bit later this morning. It’s headed to drydock in Ballard and as of this writing MarineTraffic.com shows it northbound in Colvos Passage between west Vashon and east South Kitsap, so it’s likely to come into view near Blake Island before too long. If you happen to get a photo, please share – we might not get down to the water in time. (Here’s a 2013 Flickr pic.)
12:47 PM: Thanks to Greg for the photo we’ve added above!
Don’t let the rain keep you home. Here’s some of what you can do today in West Seattle:
WEST SEATTLE FARMERS’ MARKET: 10 am-2 pm, year-round, rain or shine. (California SW between SW Oregon and SW Edmunds)
BARBECUE BENEFIT AT HALFTIME: Also in The Junction, at halftime of today’s Seahawks game, great food for a great cause:
Hot S’Awesome & Dell’ish will be hosting a fundraising halftime meal at the West Seattle Eagles Aerie #2643 during today’s Seahawks game in an effort to raise money for the Strong4Sam Foundation and Project Violet. Food, drinks, raffles, & football will be had. Entry is free, but donations to the foundation are encouraged.
Cash bar. 100% of the proceeds from food sales, raffle tickets, and auction products, & donations go directly to the Strong4Sam foundation in support of Project Violet.
(4426 California SW)
COUNCILMEMBER LARRY GOSSETT @ SOUTHWEST STORIES: 2 pm at High Point Library, King County Councilmember Larry Gossett is this month’s teller of “Southwest Stories“ – here’s his video invitation, courtesy of the Southwest Seattle Historical Society, which presents the series along with the Seattle Public Library:
(35th SW/SW Raymond)
BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS: 2 pm, a “brief, beautiful, fun service” at Fauntleroy Church – details in our calendar listing. (9140 California SW)
WOUNDED HEALER ECUMENICAL LITURGY: 5:30 pm, the year-long Our Lady of Guadalupe focus on mental health closes with this event, inviting all to “meditate on mental, physical and emotional limitations that get in the way of living our lives abundantly.” More info in our calendar listing. (35th SW/SW Myrtle)
SEE WHAT ELSE IS UP TODAY/TONIGHT … via our complete calendar.
One more video from our semi-stormy Saturday: If you missed “Diver Laura” James‘s live dive to the stormwater outfall in Cove 1 near Seacrest – here’s the video. She was streaming live via Periscope, hoping for a live look at the mesmerizing and sometimes horrifying sight of polluted stormwater runoff emerging into Puget Sound, but the rain chose that exact time for a break. There were still sights to see, and she’s added captioning for the narration recorded. You’ll also see good reasons not to ignore litter you might spot on the street – and some wildlife, too.
In July, we reported on a benefit at CAPERS in The Junction, with part of the proceeds to be used to buy blankets for the family-shelter organization Mary’s Place. Just before this wave of stormy weather, 55 cotton blankets were delivered to the shelter by CAPERS’ Mary Summers (at right in the photo, provided by the shop). You can help the women and children served by Mary’s Place in a variety of ways, from donating to volunteering – here’s how.
(TO SEE OUR SATURDAY AFTERNOON COVERAGE, go here)
In case you missed the Periscope. Wind & waves. Downpour now, too. Stay home. pic.twitter.com/wBweq5fywq
— West Seattle Blog (@westseattleblog) October 16, 2016
(Our Twitter video from Emma Schmitz Viewpoint as the wind and waves kicked up before dusk)>
6:46 PM: The wind has arrived, and some big rain has too. We’ve just been out in it, starting in Delridge before sunset (checking on sandbag supplies at the Community Center – plenty now), then heading toward Beach Drive, where Seattle Fire was checking on boarders and kayakers (everyone accounted for), and stormwatchers were at Emma Schmitz Viewpoint. (added) Here’s a photo from Greg, with an overview of Constellation Park at about the same time, a mile north of Emma Schmitz:
It’s nasty out there in some areas – Arbor Heights was getting walloped while we were checking on something else. Now is definitely the time to stay home. We’re back at HQ, for now, to track storm effects through the night.
7:15 PM: Sounds a little calmer out there right now. Just a few scattered, small power outages in West Seattle so far (here’s the City Light map) – including the one Amber mentioned in comments, six customers in Puget Ridge.
7:43 PM: Via Twitter, the National Weather Service is cautiously saying that seems to have been the worst of it:
The threat for strongest winds –over northern areas, not metro area. The storm track does not favor Seattle area for damaging winds. #wawx
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) October 16, 2016
The next of the NWS’s four-times-a-day “forecast discussions” should be out within an hour and a half or so, for the latest on whether we can all stand down and get back to regular fall weather. One thing that escaped attention because of the wind worries, Friday set a rainfall record for October 14th in Seattle, 1.36 inches, almost twice the previous record (.77 in 1990). At the midpoint of October, the month has almost triple its average rainfall, 4.43 inches through yesterday (1.11 is “normal”).
9:04 PM: Just back from a north-to-south tour and … definitely not stormy. The rain returned a few minutes ago, not too intense, though. And to underscore it, the National Weather Service has canceled the “high wind warning” and swapped it for a lower-level “wind advisory” through early am. Meantime, we’ve received some great videos and photos from the brief burst of stormy weather earlier:
Time lapse, from Ethan Owens:
Waves at Constellation Park, from Scott Krager:
Seattle Fire crew off Beach Drive checking on boarders/kayakers, photo by Erik Bell:
Kerriann Gill caught the storm rolling in:
The storm rolling in @westseattleblog pic.twitter.com/Zi9QAaMiEs
— Kerriann Gill (@kerrikgill) October 16, 2016
(added) Texted to us – this clip of a sailboarder trying to get out of the water at Emma Schmitz Viewpoint:
9:58 PM: And here’s the NWS “forecast discussion” looking ahead. The next few days are expected to be showery but nothing like the record-setting rain of the past few days.
(FOR EVENING COVERAGE, go here)
1:03 PM: Storm-related updates as of early afternoon:
NEWEST FORECAST: Weather watchers have pulled back a BIT from the dire “possibly historic windstorm” warnings but NOT from the forecast of strong wind in general. The mid-morning National Weather Service “forecast discussion” says the big wind is most likely “late afternoon/evening.” (3:03 pm note – NWS says the wind will pick up within next 2 hours or so.)
STORM DAMAGE: Trees are still the major problem. No new big ones down so far as we have heard today, but this one was blocking the sidewalk and bike lane on the north side of Admiral west of 51st SW earlier:
That was SDOT arriving just as we were photographing it. Again, saturated ground + strong wind = tree trouble so stay out of forested parks. If a tree blocks a road/sidewalk, notify SDOT: 206-386-1218, and if you can’t get them, call 911.
TREE INJURY UPDATE: We’ve been asked about the 4-year-old boy and his dad injured by a tree branch in Fauntleroy on Friday afternoon (as covered here). A family friend tells us she’s visited them and the prognosis for the little boy, most seriously hurt, is “optimistic.”
SANDBAGS: Delridge Community Center is out again as of this writing, and South Park Community Center does not have many left. We asked Seattle Public Utilities for a supply update, and they say that the four locations around the city are expected to be resupplied sometime today. We’re told Delridge is expecting about 700 sandbags around (updated) 3:30 pm. If you need some, please only take what you need, 25 maximum, as requested in this city infosheet. (4 pm update – Sandbags have arrived)
WEATHER-RELATED CANCELLATIONS: As first noted in our daily preview (where we’re also updating the list):
*Chief Sealth IHS homecoming dance
*Hate-Free Delridge vigil
*Highland Park Improvement Club Harvest Dinner
*Lions Club Oktoberfest dinner
*Mutts & Martinis “Yappy Hour”
*Solstice P-Patch Harvest Festival
*YMCA women’s swim
Any others? Please comment, or e-mail us – thank you – and thanks in advance for sharing storm-related updates from wherever you are. Fastest way to get something to us, if happening now, is our 24/7 hotline – 206-293-6302 – please consider adding it to your phone list.
ADDED 1:46 PM: Seattle Public Library will close all its branches at 2:30 pm today.
ADDED 3:03 PM: Texter reports an Xfinity (Comcast) outage on Genesee Hill.
ADDED 3:44 PM: The new “forecast discussion” is out – key quote:
Models are slightly slower with the timing of the low moving onshore but overall things are on track for a few hours of very windy weather late this afternoon or this evening for most of the area. The latest thinking is the strongest winds will be coast and north interior, closest to the low track. High winds are still likely elsewhere but probably not as strong and a bit more spotty. The interior from Seattle south probably won`t get much if any true high wind but with leaves on the trees impacts will probably be similar to high winds in the winter.
Also of note right now – one-car crash on the westbound West Seattle Bridge east of the Fauntleroy exit, one lane blocked.
5:42 PM: Still in waiting mode. Weather analyst Cliff Mass thinks the strongest winds in the Seattle area are more likely 7-9 pm, but also says – as did the NWS – that this is no longer going to be a particularly huge storm.
6:02 PM: Out checking on a couple things: SFD boats off to see about a possible boarder in distress off 4500 block Beach Drive. And possible wires down in Arbor Heights, 40th/106th.
7 PM: Both of those situations have since been resolved, and we have launched an evening report here.
In today’s edition of West Seattle Crime Watch, four incidents found in SPD’s online files, plus a reader report:
STREET ROBBERY: Checking the SPD online records, we found this incident from Wednesday (October 12th). Police were called to North Admiral at 12:44 pm after someone called 911 to report a street robbery. The victim told police he was near Admiral and California, walking to a friend’s house, when he noticed someone walking behind him. The victim was talking on his phone when the person behind him came up, grabbed it out of his hands, and ran. He chased the robber to Ferry SW, asked for the phone back, and then was knocked down and hit by the robber, who ran away southbound on 42nd SW. An area resident “heard a commotion,” the police report says, came out of her residence, saw the victim, and called 911. The robber was described as a “Hispanic man, 19-20, 6 feet tall, 180 pounds, short brown hair, wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.” Police searched the area but didn’t find him. The victim was reported to have suffered scratches to the knee.
BUSINESS BURGLARY: Another one from SPD online files – a Harbor Avenue business reported last Tuesday that it had been burglarized the previous Friday night/Saturday morning, and the burglar(s) had gotten away with money from a cash drawer.
PARK BURGLARY: Also sometime last Friday night/Saturday morning, an online report says, someone broke into the Camp Long Lodge by smashing a kitchen window. Nothing was taken.
SHED BURGLARY, BIKE STOLEN: One more report from the online files: A storage shed in the 3200 block of Belvidere was broken into last Saturday night or Sunday morning, and a bicycle was stolen. No description of the bicycle.
READER REPORT, BIKE STOLEN: The photo and report are just in, from Brad:
Stolen around Oct. 3 or 4 from a bike rack at our apartment building at 2312 California Ave. SW. It’s a KHS Urban-X with 26-inch wheels.
Call police, and let us know, if you see/have seen it.
PUBLIC SAFETY SURVEY: Seattle University researchers have just launched this year’s survey to collect information about crime and safety concerns around the city, so that SPD can update its neighborhod policing plans. The survey will be open through the end of November, but don’t procrastinate – if you have a little time, answer it now. It’s at publicsafetysurvey.org, available in seven languages – Amharic, Chinese, English, Korean, Somali, Spanish, Vietnamese.
(AFTERNOON NOTE – CONTINUING TO UPDATE cancellations/closure list as info comes in)
(Friday afternoon photo by Mark Dale – sunbreak over Vashon, as seen from Gatewood)
So far, we’ve received word of four cancellations because of the impending storm, so we start our daily preview with those:
NOT HAPPENING TODAY/TONIGHT – POSTPONED OR CANCELED
*Solstice P-Patch Harvest Festival
*Hate-Free Delridge vigil
*Lions Club Oktoberfest dinner
*Mutts & Martinis “Yappy Hour”
(added, per principal) *Chief Sealth IHS homecoming dance
(added, per e-mail) *YMCA women’s swim
(added, per e-mail)*Highland Park Improvement Club Harvest Dinner, rescheduled
We can’t guarantee those are the only cancellations, but since the wind warning doesn’t take effect until mid-afternoon (with the National Weather Service currently expecting peak winds 4-9 pm), morning events are probably safe.
Three things in particular we know ARE happening:
DELRIDGE GROCERY COOP ANNUAL MEETING: 10 am-noon, the group working to open a grocery store on Delridge convenes members for its annual meeting and promises big news. Delridge Community Center. (4501 Delridge Way SW)
SOUND & FOG POP-UP: 10 am-3 pm, the coffee/wine bar hosts local vendors for a pop-up market. (4735 40th SW)
RAINWISE CONTRACTOR FAIR AND TREE GIVEAWAY: 11 am-2 pm at Highland Park Improvement Club – we did get a note saying this is DEFINITELY on. It’s the last contractor fair of the year to help you find out more about the program to help you deal differently with stormwater on your property and potentially get a rebate for installation of improvements such as cisterns and raingardens. And – pick up a free tree for post-storm planting! (12th SW/SW Holden)
(added) WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK HARVEST DINNER/AUCTION: Tonight at Seattle Design Center in SODO. WCFB e-mailed to say it IS still on.
There’s more on our calendar, but especially if it’s an evening event, we suggest you check directly with the venue before you go. If we hear of any more changes – or confirmations – we’ll update this list. If you know of one, please let us know as soon as you can – editor@westseattleblog.com or text/voice 206-293-6302 – thank you!
P.S. Seattle Parks has a closure list here – grass playfields are closed all weekend as is Camp Long.
P.P.S. Seattle Public Library just announced all its branches will close at 2:30 pm.
10 PM: For the second year in a row, West Seattle High School has won the annual Huling Bowl crosstown-rivalry football game with Chief Sealth International HS, and the trophy that goes with it.
Chanting Westside, Westside as they take the trophy. WSHS is 5-2 on the season. pic.twitter.com/A084WJQVsl
— West Seattle Blog (@westseattleblog) October 15, 2016
Final score at Southwest Athletic Complex: WSHS Wildcats 29, CSIHS Seahawks 13.
ADDED EARLY SATURDAY: Highlights from the night at SWAC:
The first quarter was more than halfway over when WSHS #18 Gabe Gangon (above) scored the first TD. The second one was by Andrew Burggraff about midway through the second quarter, and WSHS led 15-0 at halftime.
Another Wildcat TD toward the start of the second half ran the lead to 22-0, and then midway through the third, Sealth #11 Bishop Jackson scored the first TD for the Seahawks.
Chief Sealth #11 Bishop Jackson with the TD – now West Seattle 22, Sealth 7, 6:36 left in 3rd Q #wafbscores pic.twitter.com/7FAzkxyxTc
— West Seattle Blog (@westseattleblog) October 15, 2016
The rest of the scoring was complete by midway through the fourth quarter. At the end of a winless season, the Seahawks had some bright spots, including multiple quarterback sacks. Meantime, not only was it also Sealth’s homecoming night, it was Breast Cancer Awareness Night, so lots of pink:
That’s the Sealth cheer squad, in pink after their halftime performance, which preceded the joint performance of the two schools’ bands:
Sealth has one regular-season game left, next Friday (October 21st), 7 pm at SWAC, vs. Franklin. This was the last regular-season game for WSHS but it’s expecting to play its first postseason game Thursday, opponent TBA.
(Photo courtesy VIEWS, whose Chas Redmond is at left and Pete Spalding at right, with Delridge CC’s Angie Ramirez)
Along with organizing two major community events each year, the local group VIEWS (Visualizing Increased Engagement in West Seattle) is giving two other local organizations a financial boost. The report and photo are from Pete Spalding of VIEWS:
VIEWS is a non-partisan community organization comprised of local citizens creating programming to educate, engage, and mobilize West Seattle citizens to sustain and improve the quality of life and services available across the peninsula.
VIEWS hosts two events annually, the Gathering of Neighbors and the Delridge Day Festival. As part of the mission of VIEWS we believe in giving back to our Delridge community.
As part of the VIEWS mission, we recently made two donations to our Delridge community. The first was a $1,000 donation to the Associated Recreation Council at the Delridge Community Center. This donation will be used to underwrite scholarships for programming for youth in our neighborhood that in most cases would not be able to participate.
The second donation was $350 to the Emergency Hub network to purchase some upgraded equipment to make communication easier in the case of a local disaster. VIEWS has had a long partnership with the Hub network and realizes the importance of their work to our Delridge community.
If you are interested in learning more about VIEWS and the work that we do, or would like to become involved in the work that we do, please reach out to us.
VIEWS is online at views.community.
5:55 PM: Continuing our ongoing storm coverage into the evening (see our afternoon coverage here) – first, thanks for the tips about this tree-caused blockage:
That’s Nick‘s photo of tree(s) down on 48th SW between Seaview and Lowman Beach. (If you are in the area, please let us know if/when you see it reopen – we might not be able to get down that way for a while.)
More tree trouble – from Charlie, at 33rd SW and SW Spokane in East Admiral:
Charlie says, “A large tree snapped at about 4pm at the corner of 33rd Ave SW and SW Spokane St, right at the corner of the new development going on. Likely because they’ve cut down all the other trees which protected it in prior storms. The tree is now hanging on the power lines (which is the only thing keeping it up). I’ve already called both SCL and SDOT (since when it falls it will block the roadway). A lot of people tend to shortcut through this neighborhood – please don’t – the tree could fall at any moment and land on a car or pedestrian.” (This is the same site shown in our morning traffic/weather coverage because of muddy runoff.)
And near 46th SW and SW Charlestown, MT reports this:
“Homeowner stated he was home at around 2 pm. When branch broke, bounced off his roof. Big fear is tomorrow more of the tree will come down on his home.”
No photo, but while traveling northbound on Delridge a couple hours ago, we noticed a tree down outside a house just north of Pearls.
POWER OUTAGES: Seattle City Light’s map still shows almost 3,000 homes/businesses without power, down a third from the original number who lost it. As reported in our afternoon coverage, the west side of California SW is out in The Junction, so some businesses are closed; the east side remained on. And we’re told the signal at California/Alaska is now functioning.If you want to check the current status of outages around West Seattle and the rest of the city “live,” City Light shared this version of their map with us – zoom in to get close, and grab the map with your cursor to move around:
6:09 PM UPDATE: Multiple tweets say power’s back in The Junction. Waiting for the SCL map to reflect it. Some businesses might just stay closed for the night on the west side, though (Junction TrueValue, for example, told us that was their plan), so if you’re heading out, be ready to improvise.
6:19 PM UPDATE – THE FORECAST: Before we get to more photos (thank you to everyone sharing photos and video!), here’s where the forecast stands. A High Wind Warning remains in effect for 3 pm Saturday to 2 am Sunday. Excerpt:
* TIMING…GUSTY SOUTH WINDS THIS AFTERNOON WILL EASE THIS EVENING. A PERIOD OF STRONGER WINDS IS EXPECTED LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS SUNDAY. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL LIKELY BE DURING THE EVENING.
* WINDS…SOUTH WINDS 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL EASE THIS EVENING. SOUTH WINDS 20 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 65 MPH ARE LIKELY LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.
7:23 PM UPDATE: Looks like West Seattle is down to a few scattered outages affecting ~120 customers. We are now at SW Athletic Complex in Westwood for the Chief Sealth-WSHS football game and the weather has calmed – a little showery, a little breezy, nothing at all like this afternoon. The almost-full moon is even starting to peek from behind clouds in the eastern sky.
7:37 PM: Adding some contributed imagery from a bit earlier. First, Jamie Kinney tweeted this video of pre-dusk storminess:
Here comes the storm front! @westseattleblog pic.twitter.com/9mwyGC6vQs
— Jamie Kinney (@jamiekinney) October 15, 2016
7:43 PM: 48th SW is reported to be open again. Meantime, thanks to Jen Lee for the photo from Constellation Park during this afternoon’s confluence of big wind and high tide:
One more time – if you’re on the shore or preparing to be, be aware of the full-moon high tides ahead as more high wind heads this way – the times and numbers are here.
ADDED EARLY SATURDAY: One more toppled tree we almost missed in the mailbox – thanks to Rod Moody for this pic from 47th/Brandon:
With saturated ground and potentially higher gusts, we could see more of this later today. Forested parks are a good place to avoid until the weather calms.
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