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Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Really hope you're hanging in there after last night's storm, which is still leading the news today. Here's the roundup of today's

top stories. It's Wednesday, November 20th. Fallen trees and limbs from the bomb cyclone

killed two people in the greater Seattle area, one after

branches crashed onto a home in bridal trails in Bellevue, and when a tree fell into a homeless

encampment in Linwood. And dangers remain tonight, with live power lines draped across many roads.

The general advice is do not get within 35 feet of a downed power line.

Call it in. The severe wind also caused power outages across the region from the many downed trees.

Anne Dornfeld spoke to an arborist about how to prevent tree damage in storms.

This morning, John Hushagen was on his way to Lake Forest Park

to look at a tree now leaning precariously toward a neighbor's house. I've got to go out there

and document that it's actually a high risk so that they can do an emergency removal. He says

Tuesday night's storm was especially destructive, in part because the powerful winds came from the east, not the

southwest as usual. Husagin says trees don't have to be decayed to fall. Some cedars, for instance,

routinely shed limbs. This morning, he saw a huge London plain tree at Green Lake that had fallen and

taken out another tree with it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the roots. There's not

standing water. There was no rot. It was just too much tree and too much wind. Hussacken says it's

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