Gushy and gusty: The rain is again. So is the wind. An atmospheric river will pelt Washington with extra wind and rain on Friday, doubtlessly undoing a lot of the work to get the lights on in houses blacked out by the bomb cyclone and making life extra depressing for these nonetheless with out lights and warmth.
In case your energy continues to be out: I am sorry. Greater than 185,000 individuals—most of whom are within the Seattle space—are nonetheless powerless. It needs to be again by Saturday afternoon. If it is not, do not shoot the messenger.
Energy’s out, faculty’s out: College districts in Issaquah, Bellevue, and Kent have canceled faculty for the third day in a row. Colleges in Lake Washington, Tahoma, and Mercer Island districts are additionally closed.
As regards to faculty closures: Seattle Public Colleges Superintendent Dr. Brent Jones has canceled upcoming hearings on the potential cost-saving plan to shut 4 Seattle elementary faculties completely. It is unclear what is going to occur subsequent or when.
Finances passes: The Seattle Metropolis Council formally voted to approve town’s 2025-2026 funds 8-1 on Thursday. Council Member Tammy Morales was the only real “no” vote. The funds expands “public security” funds and homeless encampment elimination groups. It allocates $2 million to take away a curb so Council Member Rob Saka can flip left right into a West Seattle pre-school. Among the many funds’s many cuts, tenant providers equivalent to authorized help for individuals susceptible to eviction suffered. After the vote, the council voted in opposition to Council Member Cathy Moore’s capital positive aspects tax proposal.
Immediately, for the primary time throughout my tenure on Council, I voted no on our biennial funds.
To the hundreds who confirmed up and made your voice heard, thanks and I’m sorry this funds could not mirror your imaginative and prescient for this metropolis.
My full remarks right here: https://t.co/wlm5KeWPxq
— Councilmember Tammy J. Morales (@CMTammyMorales) November 22, 2024
Goodbye Gaetz: Rep. Matt Gaetz could not deal with the warmth from everybody trying into his fraternization with younger intercourse employees so he withdrew himself from consideration for Legal professional Normal. It is unclear what his political future seems like since he, very confidently, resigned from Congress after Trump introduced his AG nomination. With Gaetz gone, Trump introduced a special sycophant to imagine the position. Trump picked former Florida Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi. After all, Bondi is a longtime Trump loyalist. Amongst different acts of obsequiousness, Bondi served as one in all his legal professionals throughout his first impeachment trial. Groveling toad Sen. Lindsay Graham just about nutted over the announcement saying Bondi needs to be confirmed shortly and that this choose was a “grand slam, landing, gap in a single, ace, hat trick, slam dunk, Olympic gold medal choose.”
That is not Santa: A West Seattle couple heard a big crash round 3 am on Friday morning. An older girl had pushed her automobile onto the roof of their Fauntleroy neighborhood home.
Driver crashes automobile onto roof of West Seattle dwelling https://t.co/9697WV7aWq
— KIRO 7 (@KIRO7Seattle) November 22, 2024
In all probability not an omen: A uncommon deep sea-dwelling oar fish washed up on an Encinitas, California seashore. The fish has a “lengthy eel-like physique, gaping mouth, and shiny purple dorsal fins.” It is usually a harbinger of doom in Japanese delusion. Within the months earlier than Japan’s 2011 earthquake, dozens of oarfish washed up on the island nation’s seashores. So many individuals questioned whether or not the oarfish, or “doomsday” fish, induced, or foretold, the quake that scientists needed to publish a research dispelling any hyperlink between the occasions. In latest months, California has seen three doomsday fish wash up on its shores. Scientists are stoked to analysis the uncommon fish. However are we ignoring an indication from the gods or…?
‘Doomsday fish’ washed ashore in California, however what does that imply? https://t.co/Rfx0Yct2V5
— Los Angeles Occasions (@latimes) November 21, 2024
Is that this what the doomsday fish is warning us about? Trump’s choose for protection secretary, Pete Hegseth, wrote in a ebook in 2020 that if Democrats gained the election he believed there can be a “nationwide divorce” the place the police and navy “might be pressured to select” in “some type of civil warfare.” In response to the Guardian, Hegseth additionally compelled conservatives to “mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents” and to “assault first.” Cool, cool, yeah let’s give this man management of the navy, that needs to be good for everybody.
Hate when this occurs: A affected person believed to be beneath the affect of medication at a California hospital went to the lavatory and climbed into the ceiling. When he did not come out, police checked the ceiling tiles. They discovered the person “on high of a giant HVAC unit and wedged beneath a metal beam in full darkness.” He was caught. It took an hour and $5,000 in damages to get him out of there. He was arrested.
Man who faked his personal dying is discovered and “protected:” Wisconsin man Ryan Borgwardt, 45, faked his personal dying again in August and allegedly fled to Uzbekistan to be with a girl he was speaking with on-line. Borgwardt left behind a spouse and three kids. To faux his dying, Borgwardt went kayaking after which left a capsized kayak, his telephone, and his automobile behind as he fled on a stashed e-bike. He finally boarded a airplane in Canada. Authorities acquired a maintain of Borgwardt and urged him to make a video saying he was protected. He did so, however he did not say the place he was within the video or that he would return dwelling to Wisconsin and his household.
A tune to your Friday: In case you’ve ever questioned what a soul model of R.E.M.’s “Everyone Hurts” appears like, right here you go. The legendary Al Inexperienced launched this cowl earlier this week.
