Guild Wars 2

Yeah, I’m a businessman, I set aside Tuesday so I can get into the game and enjoy the patch, when they postponed it, it hurts my schedule a lot, like a lot of you. I really wanted to Tuesday because my plans for Wednesday were other … I do not even know if I was able to log in today. My schedule is heavy, I usually only have 4 hours of sleep a day.

However I love these guys and their job, I have heard that schools in the region of them had to close due to storm problem. It must be kittening great, real kitten, Jormag decided to sabotage, and attack the boys with a storm.

Let’s be patient, and hope for the best, let’s hope they’re safe. I have no idea what a storm it is because I live in a permanently hot place. But imagine that if civil defense is triggered, it is because the problems are great.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/

http://www.seattlepi.com/aboutus/article/Let-it-snow-Winter-storm-leaves-W-Wash-10911254.php

And that’s early Monday morning.

Most of the U.S. has very old electrical power supply lines, many of them above ground. That goes even for big urban regions. That is why a blizzard affects them easier than in other parts of western civilization. (I was quite shocked when I visited the U.S. for the first time, out-of-date infrastructure, heavily chlorinated tap water, …)

It varies a bit in the Seattle metro region. Built-up areas tend to have underground power lines, but the suburbs sprawl out a long way in all directions and the less dense ones quite often do have overhead power lines. With the number of trees around, yeah, they can be subject to outages in the event of high winds or a significant snowfall. I don’t think ArenaNet’s office itself is at much risk of that, but I could be wrong.

One of the other issues, though, is simply commutes. Since the Puget Sound region only rarely sees more than a dusting of snow, when something a little bigger does happen it can leave a lot of roads too treacherous to drive on, especially since there are a lot of hills, and there aren’t as many snow plows as you’d see in the likes of Chicago or Buffalo (because it’s a rare event… though it earns Seattle at least a little bit of scorn from people who have experienced a real snowfall). That can make it hard for people to get out of their driveways. Where I work about 80% of the team couldn’t make it in Monday and had to work remotely.