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Natural Disasters

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's Staffers Held Wildfire Office Pool

    ​Things must have been awfully slow at Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's office, so slow in fact that some of her committee staffers thought it would be fun to run an office pool on how many acres would be destroyed in wildland fires.

  • Film

    July 6, 2011

    The Big Uneasy: Hurricane Katrina Re-Examined, From the Levee Side of the Storm

    ​Things must have been awfully slow at Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's office, so slow in fact that some of her committee staffers thought it would be fun to run an office pool on how many acres would be destroyed in wildland fires.

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Own a Piece of Northwest Culinary History: a Foam Tornado From the 5-Spot's Notoriously Tasteless Regional Menu

    E.K. ThompsonThe hilarity has found its way to Western Avenue.​We gave Chow Foods plenty of shit for not pulling the plug on the 5 Spot's terribly timed Tornado Alley menu amid the deadliest spate of twisters in modern American history. Mercifully, that period of stubborn tastelessness ended t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    5-Spot Retires Tornado Theme, As Scheduled. Next Up, Portland.

    ​Tornado season is apparently over at the 5-Spot, which persisted in offering jokey twister-themed décor and menu items throughout the recent deadly spate of tornadoes. The Chow Foods-owned restaurant picked the theme before the 2011 U.S. tornado outbreak killed more than 500 people. As fata ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    5 Spot's Tornado Alley Menu: Now 25% Less Tasteless (UPDATED)

    ​UPDATE, 5/25: Yesterday's twisters in Tornado (as opposed to Dixie) Alley killed at least 14 people and injured many more. As the damage grows ever more dire, we can only assume Chow Foods is busy locating elementary schools in these newly impacted areas to donate 25% of its tasteless (but t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Tornado Alley, the 5 Spot's Most Unfortunately Timed Regional Menu Ever

    Erin K. ThompsonThe taste of devastation.​The 5 Spot, along with its Chow Foods kin, regularly boasts a globetrotting regional menu that changes every three months or so. The current region featured: Tornado Alley, which, in the wake of the deadliest spate of heartland tornadoes the country ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    UW Scientists Find Japanese Radiation in Campus Ventilation System

    Image source​A team of researchers from the University of Washington's Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics didn't have to go very far afield to test for airborne radiation from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant -- they just examined air filters from the ventil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    A Japan-Strength Earthquake Would Level Seattle

    ​If it weren't for the tsunami that followed, Japan and its high tech infrastructure would have come out of its mammoth 9.0 level earthquake with flying colors. But what about Seattle? We get earthquakes here. Hell, the Seattle Fault runs directly through the city. Turns out that things probab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    History Lesson: Massive Earthquake in Pacific Northwest Triggered Japan Tsunami in 1700

    ​About 300 years before the current earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan, another wave of water swept the Island nation, wreaking havoc and laying waste to entire coastal villages. That tsunami was caused by a massive quake--estimated to have been a magnitude 9.0--that rocked the entire Pacifi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    UW Tsunami Expert in Japan "Felt the Earthquake Big Time"

    Jody Bourgeois​Last night must have been simultaneously a thrilling and terrifying experience for Jody Bourgeois. A professor in the University of Washington's department of earth and space sciences, Bourgeois has devoted years and years of research to tsunamis and earthquakes. Amazingly, she ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Seahawks 12th Man Causes Measurable Earthquake During Marshawn Lynch's Winning Run

    ​Anyone who still doubts that Qwest Field isn't the loudest, most raucous stadium in all of sports needs to turn their attention to readings from the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network on Saturday.

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Starbucks Is Evil Because of One Jerky Starbucks Employee?

    ​There was a tornado in Brooklyn yesterday. Witnesses in hipsterdom's Mecca say the twister started off cool but got lame once everyone else heard about it. (Rimshot?) Anyway, the point is that all that wind and rain allowed Gawker to run with this ridiculous headline: "Did Starbucks Leave Its ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 1, 2010

    Hootenanny For A Healthy Gulf

    ​There was a tornado in Brooklyn yesterday. Witnesses in hipsterdom's Mecca say the twister started off cool but got lame once everyone else heard about it. (Rimshot?) Anyway, the point is that all that wind and rain allowed Gawker to run with this ridiculous headline: "Did Starbucks Leave Its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    India Outsourcing Its Storms to Seattle

    Why couldn't she be what gets sent to us?​Seattle may get half of all of its expected June rainfaill by the end of the week thanks to a storm with origins in India. According to KOMO weatherman Scott Sistek, the squall set to soak our city tonight began as Cyclone Laila in the almost-coastal t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Relax, Seattle: The Next Big Earthquake Probably Isn't Happening Anytime Soon

    Fear not: this ain't happening for, like, generations.​Apocalyptic thoughts are all the rage these days. Before the unpronounceable Icelandic volcano spewed its way into the spotlight, there were deadly earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and China, all in quick succession. Is the world coming to an ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 17, 2010

    Jared Diamond

    Fear not: this ain't happening for, like, generations.​Apocalyptic thoughts are all the rage these days. Before the unpronounceable Icelandic volcano spewed its way into the spotlight, there were deadly earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and China, all in quick succession. Is the world coming to an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    WSDOT's Earthquake Video Simulation: Alaskan Way Viaduct Fall Down, Go Boom

    Those of you still on the fence about whether to get behind the deep bore tunnel (not that it matters much now that the only significant opposition wussed out), might want to take a gander at the above video. Released yesterday, it provides a glimpse of what could result if Seattle experiences ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    When It Rains It Pours: Thornton Creek Residents Soaked by City's New Flood Maps

    Aftermath of the December 2007 flood that's come back to haunt some Thornton Creek residents.​Hop in the Way Back Machine to December of 2007. As the Seattle Times reported, a "series of extraordinary events" led to the horrific death of Kate Fleming, a local audiobook narrator who drowned in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Constantine Proposes Shifting Money from Ferries to Floods, Not the Other Way Around

    ​ In reluctantly accepting that the King County Ferry District won't be able to expand beyond the West Seattle and Vashon passenger runs for quite some time (if ever), County Councliman/Ferry District Chair/County Exec candidate Dow Constantine has had to deal with being kicked while he's down ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 15, 2009

    Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival

    ​ In reluctantly accepting that the King County Ferry District won't be able to expand beyond the West Seattle and Vashon passenger runs for quite some time (if ever), County Councliman/Ferry District Chair/County Exec candidate Dow Constantine has had to deal with being kicked while he's down ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Has the Viaduct Collapsed Yet?

    Seattle was rattled early this morning by a 4.5 magnitude earthquake. Although the tremblor was just one of the countless little events that we residents living along the Cascadia subduction zone experience regularly, some folks might wonder how our local infrastructure faired this morning ... More >>

  • Film

    October 15, 2008

    PICK Trouble the Water: Hurricane Katrina Filmed From the Inside Out

    Seattle was rattled early this morning by a 4.5 magnitude earthquake. Although the tremblor was just one of the countless little events that we residents living along the Cascadia subduction zone experience regularly, some folks might wonder how our local infrastructure faired this morning ... More >>

  • Music

    September 10, 2008

    Mudslide: Girls, Happiness, and Not Holding Back

    Seattle's last great rock-’n’-roll warriors.

  • Arts

    January 23, 2008

    Flourishes of Stagecraft Distract From Three Stories of Survival in The Breach

    The Rep’s production is a monumental effort that includes a pool containing 840 cubic feet of water, buckets of rain falling from the rafters, and lots of moving parts onstage.

  • Film

    October 24, 2007

    Desert Bayou: Katrina’s Refugees in the Mormon State

    The Rep’s production is a monumental effort that includes a pool containing 840 cubic feet of water, buckets of rain falling from the rafters, and lots of moving parts onstage.

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2007

    Feel Like You're Digging out of a Hole?

    The Rep’s production is a monumental effort that includes a pool containing 840 cubic feet of water, buckets of rain falling from the rafters, and lots of moving parts onstage.

  • News

    April 11, 2007

    Something Useful From the City Council?

    The Rep’s production is a monumental effort that includes a pool containing 840 cubic feet of water, buckets of rain falling from the rafters, and lots of moving parts onstage.

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2007

    A Seiche, in Seattle?

    The Rep’s production is a monumental effort that includes a pool containing 840 cubic feet of water, buckets of rain falling from the rafters, and lots of moving parts onstage.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2007

    Matt Costa: Live at Easy Street

    The Rep’s production is a monumental effort that includes a pool containing 840 cubic feet of water, buckets of rain falling from the rafters, and lots of moving parts onstage.

  • Film

    December 27, 2006

    An Overdue Defense of Little Miss Sunshine

    Plus Spike Lee, Jet Li, and the decline of Bart.

  • Arts

    September 6, 2006

    Q&A With Chris Jordan

    Plus Spike Lee, Jet Li, and the decline of Bart.

  • Film

    May 31, 2006

    Typhoon

    Like bad John Woo, plus dirty nukes.

  • Film

    April 19, 2006

    Lens Craft

    Documentaries stand out at this annual fest.

  • News

    November 16, 2005

    Closing the Barn Door

    Documentaries stand out at this annual fest.

  • News

    October 19, 2005

    The Super Flood

    Forget an eruption. The real threat of Mount Rainier is a surging wall of mud that could bury the suburbs and splash Seattle.

  • Arts

    October 12, 2005

    Master of Disaster

    Earthquakes aren't the only unmet natural crises this British author sees for America. And he's coming to view another one on Seattle's waterfront.

  • Arts

    October 12, 2005

    No Great Shakes

    Science, drama, travelogue—there's a jumble of themes in this quake book that would be more solid told separately.

  • News

    September 14, 2005

    When Incompetence Rules

    Science, drama, travelogue—there's a jumble of themes in this quake book that would be more solid told separately.

  • News

    September 7, 2005

    Bush Blows Katrina

    Following the media trail of Dubya's disaster: Doesn't anyone at the White House read National Geographic?

  • News

    September 7, 2005

    Duck and Cover-Up

    Seattle could be next, and obviously we have work to do.

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    Education, 25 Years Ago, Transportation, Religion, and Media

    Seattle could be next, and obviously we have work to do.

  • News

    October 1, 2003

    Burn the Forest for the Trees

    It's time for Smokey Bear to retire, for the good of the woods. But Forest Service momentum and Bush timber policy stand in the way.

  • News

    March 7, 2001

    Sliding scales

    It's time for Smokey Bear to retire, for the good of the woods. But Forest Service momentum and Bush timber policy stand in the way.

  • News

    March 7, 2001

    Feathers fly in quake

    It's time for Smokey Bear to retire, for the good of the woods. But Forest Service momentum and Bush timber policy stand in the way.

  • News

    March 7, 2001

    Quake quiz

    Everything you need to know about earthquakes but were afraid to ask.

  • News

    February 28, 2001

    Special Coverage: Ash Wednesday Quake

    Everything you need to know about earthquakes but were afraid to ask.

  • Food

    January 17, 2001

    Wild weather

    A Portland-based Thai chain storms into a familiar space.

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    Out of bounds, dude!

    Are backcountry snowboarders in over their heads?

  • Arts

    October 6, 1999

    An Unforgettable Storm

    Weaving a nonfiction thriller from the strands of history.

  • News

    April 21, 1999

    SEVEN WAYS to DIE OUTDOORS

    Before you trek off in search of spiritual enlightenment, be warned: It's a jungle out there.

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