Northwest storms stop presses

By Randy Davidson on December 16th, 2006

Publishers like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer were impacted this last week by the storms in the Northwest. Power to the Seattle Times plant was knocked out which forced the cancellation of the press run for the Friday morning editions. The last time The Times didn’t publish was in 1953. Both papers’ electronic versions were available to readers as usual on the Internet.

An article by the Seattle Times discussed this and backup strategies at the plants.

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  1. One Response to “Northwest storms stop presses”

  2. By Gail Nickel-Kailing on Dec 17, 2006 | Reply

    No electricity - no Internet - yikes! This is the first time I’ve experienced winds that literally blew the paint off a house!
    G.