1. Various of fallen trees on houses
2. Various of damaged houses
3. Generator
4. Closed Subway sandwich shop
5. Note in window saying closed due to power cut
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Deborah and Rob Schwind, Redmond residents:
Rob: “We haven’t had any power since Thursday evening early and it’s in the low 30s and it gets pretty cold at night.”
Deborah: “We see our breath inside the house so we dress like this inside and outside, the best time is midnight to six am because you’re under blankets, and it’s pretty cold, but you know what, we’re sticking it out, it’s a little bit of an adventure.”
Rob: “Lots of tree branches to clean up, lots of trees to cut up and get off the side of the house and that kind of thing.”
7. People walking along road
8. Workers cutting damaged trees
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Scott Curtis, Redmond lumberjack:
“We’ve been removing trees pretty much from sun-up till dark. It’s been a workload – guys have been coming home and we’ve been averaging about ten trees a day.”
10. Out-of-service petrol station
11. Out-of-service traffic lights
12. Various of damaged power lines and fallen trees
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mo Mimori, Redmond resident:
“We want to take out our Christmas tree from our garage but there’s no point – we can’t turn on the lights, and second, we pretty much spent all our money on kerosene stuff for the heater and batteries and other stuff for warming us up.”
14. Damaged power lines
15. Workers fixing power lines
16. Traffic on road
STORYLINE:
The death toll from the worst windstorm in more than a decade to hit the U.S. state of Washington climbed to 12 on Monday, and Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire declared a statewide disaster to help victims of the storm, which hit late on Thursday and early on Friday.
The state National Guard has been mobilised to help get fuel and supplies to hard-hit areas, and 100 people developed symptoms of carbon monoxide (an odourless gas) poisoning, which authorities blamed on the use of portable generators and grills for light and heating.
More than 1.5 (m) million homes and businesses across the Northwest lost electricity at some point in the storm.
With temperatures in the low to mid-20s across most of the affected areas on Monday, some retailers were running out of fire logs and batteries.
“We want to take out our Christmas tree from our garage but there’s no point – we can’t turn on the lights, and second, we pretty much spent all our money on kerosene stuff for the heater and batteries and other stuff for warming us up,” said storm victim Mo Mimori, who lives in Redmond, just outside Seattle.
Firewood was also in short supply, and there were long lines at the petrol stations which were able to open.
Nearly 250,000 homes and businesses on Monday remained without gas and power in the hardest-hit western areas of the state.
“We haven’t had any power since Thursday evening early and it’s in the low 30s and it gets pretty cold at night,” said local man Rob Schwind, who despite the hardship, remained in good spirits.
The devastation exceeded that of the windstorm on January 20, 1993, which left five people dead, at least 79 homes destroyed and about 130 million US dollars in damage.
Damages from the current storm have yet to be assessed, but the death toll this time is higher and the impact on the power grid appears to be more severe.
Seattle City Light was reconnecting 175,000 buildings, compared with 110,000 in the 1993 storm, and Puget Sound Energy reported more damage to major transmission lines.
Keyword-severe weather storm
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Post time: Jan-29-2017