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Ice Storm in East Puget Sound Lowlands, Washington
Ice Storm January 19, 2012 · East Puget Sound Lowlands, Washington
What the National Weather Service wrote
Downed trees and damaged exhibits and fences totaled about 200,000 at Northwest Trek in Eatonville. A WSDOT employee was injured by an ice coated tree limb, and another was injured in an icy crash on I-405. Power infrastructure was also damaged.
The wider storm
After varying amounts of snowfall of up to 18 inches, freezing rain up to about one inch caused about a half million power outages, cancelled over 300 flights at SeaTac Airport and was responsible for one death.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 361916. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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