page_title: Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006
section_title: Newspapers
hierarchical_section_title: Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006 / Impact / Washington / Newspapers
caption_attribution_description: English: Damage in Seattle after the Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm of 2006. Item 158605, SDOT Transportation Projects Digital Photographs (Record Series 8100-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.
context_page_description: The Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006 was a powerful Pacific Northwest windstorm in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and southern British Columbia, Canada between December 14, 2006 and December 15, 2006. The storm produced hurricane-force wind gusts and heavy rainfall, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and leaving over 1.8 million residences and businesses without power. Eighteen people were killed, most of whom died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the days following the storm because of improper use of barbecue cookers and generators indoors. The name of the storm was chosen in a contest run by the National Weather Service office in Seattle from about 8,000 entries.
context_section_description: For the first time in 70 years, on December 15 the Seattle Post Intelligencer was not able to publish copies of its newspaper.  As a result of a power outage at a printing plant in Bothell, the Seattle Times was only able to publish 13,000 copies of its Friday edition.
  The following day, both newspapers had to be printed by The News Tribune of Tacoma by virtue of an agreement to use each others' printing presses during emergencies.
  For its December 20 edition, the Seattle Times put carbon monoxide warnings on its front page in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Somali, and Russian to get the word out to the immigrant community about the dangers of carbon monoxide in light of recent deaths.
caption: Wind damage in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle.
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