We’ve been in Hong Kong for less than 24 hours and I already feel like we’ve done a ton….or perhaps I’m just really tired from traveling. Matt and I left for SeaTac airport at 10:15am on the 24th and finally landed in Hong Kong around 11:30pm on the 25th. Whew. Our flight over was actually incredibly stress-free and quite enjoyable: we took Korean Airlinesand got one of the newer planes which is equipped with an In-Flight Entertainment screen for every seat—we all had access to over 20 movies to watch in our own time (and recent ones, like Click, Little Miss Sunshine and Scoop), lots of music, games, etc. It…

About a million homes are without power (not me! yay!), the 520 bridge is still closed, traveling on I-90 is total madness, fallen debris everywhere, hundreds of flooded homes and the entire Microsoft campus is without power right now—-so I guess I’m not going to work since I can’t do anything except sit in the dark in my office!

Sheesh. Seattle’s been getting some crazy extreme weather lately. This week has seen some unusually strong winds and precipitation…but I didn’t realize until today that we were getting one of the biggest wind storms since “Inaugural Day” (apparently, some crazy storm hit the Puget Sound on Clinton’s Inauguration back in ’93). Sure enough, by around 3pm, a ton of my co-workers had left for the day to deal with traffic and avoid any bad weather. I held out until 6pm when the office lights started flickering and news of the 520 bridge potentially closing as early as 9pm. I immediately hit the back roads, which was actually a stupid idea…