Author: Laura

祝大家新年快乐!!心想事成!身体健康是最重要的!^_^

昨天开了3个多小时的车去华盛顿洲最北面的山Mt Baker。事先就知道会很冷，所以特别穿了厚的衣服，可是还是估算错误，没有想到这么冷，还下雪籽！！不过风景很漂亮，爬到山上觉得自己就在云里，仿佛置身仙山。感觉很像武侠片里面什么老道或者是室外高人隐居的地方！！酷啊！！^_^

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利用国庆假期，和几个朋友开车去黄石公园玩了几天，整天呆在办公室空调房间里，对着电脑，导致成天头痛，精神不好，身体变差，整个亚健康状态。所以这次可以乘机休息，远离电脑，让我有点乐不思蜀了！

老实说，黄石公园是久仰大名了，但是究竟有啥好，去之前，直到上路都还是搞不清楚，还好，朋友中有个好的导游，所以行程安排完全不用费心，真是一个省心的trip啊！！

最终结果，还是很让我非常满意，青山绿水，原始森林，原始动物，还有罕见的五颜六色色彩斑斓的熔岩地底喷泉。想象着要是天天都在这里转悠多好啊！（现在正在上班，所以容我痴心妄想一下）。

碰到了很多有趣的事情，比如说牦牛大摇大摆的走在公路上，所有车子都不敢超过它，停着或者跟着它慢慢爬，然后堵了一溜车。但是牦牛同志还是慢悠悠的走着s型，性子来了，冲着红色的车子过去吓唬吓唬大家。还有一只牦牛溜达到了人满为患的停车场，就看见人类大惊小怪的大呼小叫，纷纷冲过去抓拍，我们的牛同志仿佛司空见惯了，照着自己的步伐节奏不紧不慢的走着，估计心里想：这些人类真好笑，看见我就这么兴奋，我可是久经沙场的老牛，什么人没有见过！呵呵。

看动物的兴致也从第一天的超级兴奋的跳下车子去拍照慢慢的到第三天的无所谓态度。最后一天，看到别人拿着相机冲下车子就为了照一只鹿或者牛，就会不削的耻笑他们这么没有追求，浑然忘记了自己第一天也是同样的状态。

至于熔岩喷泉，实在是感叹造物主的神奇，大部分喷发是不可预期的，但是有一个“old faithful Geyser" 却是一个多小时喷一次，准时的很。所以会有很多人等在那边看，就像我们平时看show一样，大家惴惴不安的等在那里，随着时间分分秒秒过去，但是那个洞口还是只冒烟不见喷出来，于是有个朋友说：”是不是假的，大概有人在下面烧锅炉吧，没有等到人很多，就不加大火让它滚。”^_^虽然是笑话，不过等待的焦急心情可想而知，等到喷发的一刻还是很兴奋的，水柱加烟气高达100到200米。非常壮观。当然还有很多奇特的spring或者geyser，大多数都是五彩缤纷的，但是都没有喷发。只有少数一些幸运的被我们撞到。这么多的天然温泉，竟然没有被开发，真是浪费资源啊！！而且每一个都是冒着热气，滚着水泡，就像一锅沸水，我们都想象着如何把鸡蛋或者别的食物放进去煮熟了拿出来吃。：）（试想三天来对着这么多天然的沸腾的锅炉水，再加上一路上没啥好吃的，实在很难不去发挥吃的想象力！！哈哈）

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今天是2007年的第一天，祝所有人新年快乐，心想事成！

 

昨天和老公跟两个朋友去Seattle的Space needle看烟火倒数迎接新年！没有想到，人还真是很多，大家都很兴奋。老公拍了好多烟火的照片，想看的可以去这里看： http://caoxiangyu.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!18343D7EF1299DB3!876.entry?owner=1

 

昨天凌晨西雅图地区刮了几十年不遇的大风，结果造成80万用户及商家停电。微软也是其中之一。Redmond整个瘫痪！主要的桥梁都关闭，520桥还被风吹坏了，但是维修的人都不敢上去，因为晃的太厉害，要等不那么晃了再修。还有好多地方发大水。还好我们家没事，万幸！！

From Seattle Times News:

 

King County Executive Ron Sims issued an emergency proclamation this morning after supercharged winds of up to 70 miles an hour overnight knocked out power to about one million people in greater Seattle.

Utilities across the region worked feverishly to restore lights and heat, but warned that hundreds of thousands of homes in Seattle and its suburbs may remain dark into Saturday. Puget Sound Energy warned of delays of up to five days.

"As storm winds died down this morning, government agencies and individuals began to grapple with the damage and chaos from a storm that has killed at least four people..

In Seattle, hundreds of thousands of gallons of sewage mixed with rainwater was flushed into Puget Sound after two critical parts of King County’s wastewater system were damaged and overwhelmed by flood runoff.

Major roads, including the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and Hood Canal Bridge reopened after periodic closures.

The storm caused an unusual amount of damage the region’s power infrastructure. Dozens of transmission lines — the large power lines that transfer power from dams and other sources to neighborhood substations — were knocked down in the storm, said Dorothy Bracken, a spokeswoman for Puget Sound Energy.

PSE had dispatched a helicopter to pinpoint where trees had cut the transmission lines. PSE said it needed to assess those failures before targeting "feeder" lines that flow out from substations to neighborhoods.

Seattle City Light, which had 110,000 homes still in the dark this afternoon said a typical storm downs two or three feeder lines. Last night’s storm cut 65; 49 were still not working this afternoon, said spokesman Peter Clarke.

Clarke said City Light expected 100,000 homes – about one-third of the utility’s residential customers – to still be without power by midnight tonight, and about 50,000 midnight on Saturday.

"There will be people without power tonight and when we get down to small neighborhoods there may be some of those that are out for more than 24 hours, " Clarke said.

PSE reported 700,000 customers – two thirds of its customer base — without power, most of them in King County, said Bracken. In addition to most Eastside cities, Bracken said "all of Whidbey Island is without power."