Wind cleanup: Call in the goats!

Floyd McKay

Floyd McKay Jul 3, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Wind cleanup: Call in the goats!</h1>
                <h2><p>The windstorm that blasted through the region on Saturday knocked out power to about 200,000 customers, closed the 520 Bridge and injured at least three people, including a 2-year-old boy in Seattle’s University District, who suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries. The lights are back on thanks to</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/floydmckay-comcast-net/">Floyd McKay</a></p> 
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            <p>The windstorm that blasted through the region on Saturday knocked out power to about 200,000 customers, closed the 520 Bridge and injured at least three people, including a 2-year-old boy in Seattle’s University District, who suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries. The lights are back on thanks to Puget Sound Energy and Seattle City Light, who scrambled to restore power. And just in time for this reliably wet and windy month, King County has <a href="http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/waterandland/flooding/warning-system/app.aspx?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">a new app </a>to alert people of real-time flooding info.Speaking of storms and apps, the one we really want would feature a live-stream of the weed-eating Wallingford goats camped out under the I-5 bridge. Mostly because they are cute and funny, but also to alert their neighbors when storms blow down their fencing, as they did this weekend, forcing quick repairs. <a href="http://www.wallyhood.org/2013/11/goat-rodeo/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org#">Wallyhood reported</a> from the scene Saturday when the goats' corral came down. (No reported goat injuries.) — J.C.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="http://crosscut.com/media/story_image/goats_fence_wallyhood.jpg" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy"></figure>
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The windstorm that blasted through the region on Saturday knocked out power to about 200,000 customers, closed the 520 Bridge and injured at least three people, including a 2-year-old boy in Seattle’s University District, who suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries. The lights are back on thanks to Puget Sound Energy and Seattle City Light, who scrambled to restore power. And just in time for this reliably wet and windy month, King County has a new app to alert people of real-time flooding info.Speaking of storms and apps, the one we really want would feature a live-stream of the weed-eating Wallingford goats camped out under the I-5 bridge. Mostly because they are cute and funny, but also to alert their neighbors when storms blow down their fencing, as they did this weekend, forcing quick repairs. Wallyhood reported from the scene Saturday when the goats' corral came down. (No reported goat injuries.) — J.C.

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By Floyd McKay

Floyd J. McKay, professor of journalism emeritus at Western Washington University, was a print and broadcast journalist in Oregon for three decades. He is also a historian and his new book, "Reporting