I expect that the residents of Washington will soon be escorting us to the state line. Ya know… kindly wishing us well and telling us to never return.
Since we arrived here a little less than one year ago the following has happened:
Record rainfall for any November on record.
Record rainfall for one month, any month, since record keeping began a bazillion years ago.
Various and assundry earthquakes
Massive flooding
The strongest windgust on record occurred at Sea Tac airport (last night)
This recent storm (supposedley the worst in 15 years)
Our little snowstorm a few weeks back that brought great havoc to the whole region (but was quite pretty)
The driest summer in however many years (OK… I was truly enjoying that one)
Most windstorms in one month’s time for something like the past 60 years (that happened when we first got here).
Coldest wind chill on record (3 below zero) since 1973
All of this has occurred in this humble state since we arrived here on February 2nd.
I think Washingtonians may be contemplating how they can get rid of us and these unending plagues we seem to have brought with us. All I can say is look at the bright side. There are no frogs, no locusts and the waters have not turned to blood. So…. it could be worse. 
Hmmm – so you’re to blame! Tell you what, we’ll give you another year to see if things improve and then we’ll discuss it. We were without power for a little over 24 hours. But we are prepared islanders and had a generator plus a gas fireplace. We just had a new staff member who moved here from Pensacola and her husband left several days ago for Iraq. I couldn’t get hold of her by phone so I drove out to her house and found her shivering in the dark, crying. So I bundled her up and brought her home with me. So glad someone did the same for you! Here’s hoping for a calmer December!
Evict? nah, that’s just the welcoming committee who must have thought y’all would be missing those hurricanes.
thank goodness for good neighbors, eh? glad to hear you are not still in the dark. we were also fortunate and got power back late Friday afternoon. I was expecting Tuesday. lots of trees down here in the city and I heard many more in the burbs.
what a great story about AG and Santa; must have really felt like Christmas.