Wind Storm 2015 tops Ice Storm 1996

As last Tuesday’s winds approached hurricane-force speeds, Debbie Simock was sitting in an emergency meeting at Avista’s corporate headquarters. Every 10 minutes, the company’s online outage map refreshed, showing thousands of additional customers without power. “We all looked at each other with big eyes when it crossed the 100,000 mark,” said Simock, an Avista spokeswoman. “We knew that we were in new territory.” Many Spokane County residents awoke Monday to their seventh day without power. For some, it was a flashback to November 1996, when an ice storm left more than 100,000 Avista residents without power/ Becky Kramer , SR. More here .

Question: How many of you also experienced Ice Storm 1996 and Fire Storm 1991?