Tuesday’s bomb cyclone affected nearly everyone in Western Washington—albeit unevenly. The windstorm killed two people, left more than half a million homes without power, shuttered schools, grocery stores, and medical centers, and felled towering trees between the Cascade foothills and the Pacific coastline.
In the two days since the storm, lineworkers have hustled to restore electricity for nearly a quarter-million families, cleared roads of tree trunks and other detritus, and brought power back to more than 50 schools. The recovery has been a historic, urgent megaproject on the backs of individual workers. Snohomish Public Utility District journeyman foreman Jeff Roberts told The Seattle Times that he shied away from
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