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March is National Umbrella Month
Despite Washington's notoriously long (okay, endless) rainy season, Washingtonians tend to be ambivalent about the use of umbrellas. The following is a typical conversation in a Washington workplace... Jill: "Ack, it's pouring! It wasn't pouring two minutes ago when I was packing up for lunch." Jane: "Give it two minutes, and it'll stop." Jill: "What do you think? Should I bring my umbrella?" Jane: "No." Jill: "But I don't want to ruin my suit." Jane: "Fine, then take an umbrella." Jill: "Okay...[looks for umbrella under desk]...um, I can't find my umbrella.
Where were you when Nisqually Earthquake struck?
It was exactly 10 years ago today when the Nisqually Earthquake struck much of Western Washington and shut down the 2001 legislative session for a couple of days. The big shake occurred at 10:54 a.m. and caused $2 billion in damage. Check out this story in yesterday’s Olympian about the 6.8-magnitude quake and its aftermath. For those of us who were in the Legislative Building on Olympia’s Capitol Campus, the tremor was a wild, scary ride. But it could have been far worse.
