Saturated soil in rugged terrain could not stop homeless youth or terrorists from uprooting a large tree, which then fell onto a power cable, which then pulled a power pole from its foundation and snapped it in half, plunging up to 35 homes warm with good cheer into darkness.
My reporter crosses the heavily barricaded police line.
Little could prepare us for the high-voltage mayhem and carnage splayed across the public throughfare.
My reporter jumps like a little fairy. We are in the middle of the road! There are no cars here! It's madness.
At the onset of the Christian high holy day, it was not clear whether slotcars and toy trains would run obligatory laps for this secluded, unusually quiet Seattle community. A nation watches, breathless, as the crisis unfolds.