Kristopher Shinn
I discovered this local photographer on X and I am obsessed with his work.
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Spoke Too Soon
Remember yesterday when I posted we had survived and things were back to normal? Yeah. About that.
This morning, just as I was settling in to start my workday from home - there was a bang outside and the power went out again. It's been out since then.
I ended up going into the office and charging things while I was there, but now I'm home and we have no clear ETA on when power will be restored. The power company confirms they are aware of it but it's just marked as possibly being fixed tomorrow by 3pm, which is their default time they've been using since before our power originally came back.
So, we'll see.
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We survived
We were without power for about 36 hours thanks to the bomb cyclone. It went out around 11:30pm on Monday and we weren't sure when it was coming back. The outage map had all outages marked as Saturday at noon, but I was fairly sure we were on the same grid as the middle school across the street from us. It's why we went to the movies last night, to get out of the house and go somewhere warm.
This morning, Katie excitedly messaged me this morning when the power came back on.
I shared the following few posts during our ordeal.
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Orcas return to Penn Cove for first time in 50 years
I saw some videos about this on TikTok and have been waiting to see any news coverage. But it's a pretty amazing thing to hear about given the story of Penn Cove and why the Orcas have avoided it for so long.
The article talks about their return and delves more into the awfulness of the Penn Cove massacre for the pod.
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The MV Kalakala
I came across this piece of Seattle's history earlier today. Obviously well earlier than my time, but I find the design and application of art deco to a ferry ship fascinating.
From it's Wikipedia entry:
Motor Vessel Kalakala (pronounced /kəˈlɑːkəˌlɑː/)[1] was a ferry that operated on Puget Sound from 1935 until her retirement in 1967.
MV Kalakala was notable for her unique streamlined superstructure, art deco styling, and luxurious amenities. The vessel was a popular attraction for locals and tourists, and was voted second only to the Space Needle in popularity among visitors to Seattle during the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. The ship is known as the world's first streamlined vessel for her unique art deco styling.
After retiring from passenger service in 1967, the ship was beached in Kodiak, Alaska, and converted to a shrimp cannery. In 1998, the ship was refloated and towed to Puget Sound with the owner hoping to restore the ship. During this time, the ship continued to deteriorate, with the Coast Guard declaring the ship a hazard to navigation in 2011. Unable to raise the funds required for restoration, the ship was scrapped in 2015.
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I can see my house from here!
Amazing view of this wonderful slice of heaven. Commenter on another website did point out how you can clearly see how much of the tree cover has been removed around the Puget Sound.
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Seattle tops big cities for fastest growth rate with 2.4%
From July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2022, Seattle had a net gain of about 17,750 people, bringing the total population to 749,000. The city’s growth rate for the year pencils out to 2.4%, easily the fastest among the 50 largest U.S. cities. The rate of growth is quite comparable to what we saw in the 2010s.
This news may come as a surprise to some Seattleites. The Emerald City was hit hard by the pandemic, like many of the nation’s biggest cities. Last year, I wrote that Seattle had a net loss of about 4,300 people from 2020 to 2021, according census data. That figure actually underestimated the decline. The Census Bureau has since revised the number to a loss of about 9,000, which makes the strong growth from 2021 to 2022 all the more remarkable.
Also remarkable: All the fastest-growing big cities last year, with the exception of Seattle, were located in the Sunbelt. Fort Worth, Texas, was No. 2, with 2% growth. Charlotte, N.C.; Miami; and Jacksonville, Fla.; rounded out the top five. In fact, after Seattle, the next 15 fastest-growing big cities were all in the Sunbelt.
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Puget Sound War
I've lived here for 11 years but never heard this discussed. Not surprising, but it drives home for me that we only educate children (presumably) in this sort of history. I ended up looking it up because I saw a questionable map of "all battles in the last 4500 years" which included dots in the Pacific Northwest, and I decided to go look it up.
The Puget Sound War was an armed conflict that took place in the Puget Sound area of the state of Washington in 1855–56, between the United States military, local militias and members of the Native American tribes of the Nisqually, Muckleshoot, Puyallup, and Klickitat. Another component of the war, however, were raiders from the Haida and Tlingit who came into conflict with the United States Navy during contemporaneous raids on the native peoples of Puget Sound.
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Chinuk Wawa - A PNW trade pidgin language
I fell down a Wikipedia hole for a bit this afternoon between calls and while resting my brain from Excel work. I had gone looking for some history about Seattle which led me to began to wonder where the local area "Alki Beach" got its name. As it turns out "alki" is from this Chinuk Wawa pidgin. As with pidgins and creoles, definitions are loose and contextual - here are the definitions for 'alki':
- eventually
- someday
- in the future
- times to come
- presently
- directly
- later
- in a little while
- after a while
- shortly
- will
- shall
Now, before I dive further into the topic, I was stop and acknowledge that this creole language is closely intertwined with the settlement and imperialism in the PNW region. I do not want to gloss over that that imperialism and cultural erasure is a big reason why this pidgin language both came to exist but also eventually died out. The video I embedded below does a good job discussing this and highlighting it.
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"The Seattle Times Company launches The Ticket, a calendar and ticketing site for the Puget Sound region"
Several notable bits here:
First, they hire an editor from The Stranger to run it. Second, that it is a calendar and ticketing service.
The Seattle Times Company is launching a new regionwide calendar and ticketing platform on August 18th called The Ticket. Powered and promoted by The Seattle Times, The Ticket is a lively, opinionated entertainment website covering all the exciting events and things to do in Seattle and the Puget Sound region.
The site is created by the Seattle Times Content Studio and will be led by Chase Burns, formerly an editor at The Stranger. With his experience as a successful entertainment reporter and editor in Seattle, Burns is perfectly positioned to help The Seattle Times Company create a compelling, visionary entertainment website for the Seattle area. He has assembled a team of experienced local writers, reporters and videographers to help him create The Ticket.
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The Ticket will include event listings and planners featuring things to do across five key regions in Seattle. Readers can access content through weekly email newsletters, social media channels and navigation from seattletimes.com.
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