Any tips? Worried about the gray and making friends in a big city. 30 yo male.

Hello. I just moved to the area. I am used to bringing all of my Amazon returns to Whole Foods, but that never shows as a return option here in Kirkland. Am I missing something? Thanks!

1-3 sessions needed for a gift for friend. He's alittle shy and just needs some tips to help with what he's already doing.

Anyone else see the young man trying to cross 405 south at ~6:10am just past exit 17? Hopefully he gave up before he got killed.

If you haven’t tried Sou Thai in Kirkland Urban I recommend it highly. Really excellent food and I’m stingy and want them to stay around.

Just took a walk around Totem Lake, and I’m pretty sure a saw some bob cats. I was walking along the gravel path on the back side with the protected ecosystem signs and that has a fence line with Discount Tire and a few other businesses.

They were pretty far away so I’m not 100% sure and I would love to know if anyone else has seen them. They were brown little flashes, ran like most cats, but I didn’t see long tails so that was my assumption.

Looking to move into a new apartment in the next two months for myself, my partner, and our small dog. We want a relatively updated space and I would like to stay in the downtown Kirkland area. We need a 1bed/1bath minimum, but some extra space for guests (den or extra bedroom) would be nice if possible. Need to stay within $2500-3500 price range and we both have cars. Looking for advice from other renters!!

So far we looked at Tera, Voda, Uptown, and some private condo rentals. We have an tour scheduled with Chelsea in Juanita too.

Here are my concerns/questions:

TERA- updated units are nice but it is older building. saw reviews on hidden utility fees, constant rent increases, and shitty requirted wifi provider GiGStream. Anybody live here and have insight??

VODA- Would def need to buy parking due to location... and a little pricier.

UPTOWN- smaller units for sure, but super nice building and would also need parking.

Chelsea- further out of Kirkland than we would like but has reasonable price and great floorplans.

Can any current residents of these buildings lmk how it is?? Any other building suggestions or people with rentals available in the area?

i did it! im the lucky number one! the last 1% still in the dark from tuesday! what do i win?

edit: power is back this evening!! thank you all for humoring us. it’s nice to see our community rally around something :)

We've had our power restored twice now, only to lose it again within an hour. Went out for the third time at 3:30pm on Sunday. We've called four times, reported online twice, we even chatted with some on PSE's Instagram account when they stopped accepting phone calls. Every time we talk to someone they say the same thing- "It's showing your power as having been restored, but I'll make sure to get it in our system, it should show up on the outage map in about a half hour". 14 hours later and nothing- nothing online, no updates, no crew assigned.

I know PSE is swamped, but how many calls does it take for us to show up on an outage map? Are we going to be continually bumped down lower in the queue? Kirkland is largely restored by now, and I know they're moving onto other hard hit areas, but we're on day six and we can't even get them to confirm that we do not, in fact, have power. Oh! And we can't apply for the credit because we haven't been out for 120 consecutive hours. Guess that 60 minutes of electricity we've had since Tuesday was enough for us.

Really tried to stay patient here but this is beyond frustrating. A bunch of our neighbors returned home last night to dark houses because PSE's system says that we've been restored, including a family with a medically-fragile child. Just heard a couple pull up in their driveway, yell a bunch of obscenities when they saw the lights were off, and turn straight back around.

Leasing office just confirmed entire building is half out of electricity again. Claims that PSE caused a power surge in the waterfront area, anyone else affected?

anybody else here in kirkland still waiting for a crew to be assigned to their neighborhood or have i slipped into the twilight zone

Hey! I am moving into the area from Ohio, had several years of experience working at an IT company that focused primarily on dental offices. I deeply enjoyed it and would love to find something that is similar here.

Anyone aware of any IT providers that take on dental offices? After talking to a lot of dental offices, it almost seems like most handle their stuff internally.

Thanks!

hoping this new estimate has lots of cushion

Power just came back on for those nearby the wallgreens at Juanita Bay. My guess is those along 116th are up now too fingers crossed

What are our tax dollars going towards? I haven't seen a single cop driving all around Kirkland last two days. I've seen PSE crews, ambulances, fire department, etc. Not a single cop. These rainy nighttime intersections with no traffic lights are getting dangerous with no one knowing how to drive. Why is there not a cop at the major intersections during rush hour?

Hi All,

I was wondering if someone knows what would happen in terms of responsibility if a big branch fallen on my garden/property and caused damage to the fence?

I saw in this page https://www.redmond.gov/Faq.aspx?QID=228 that from redmond if a city tree fall on someones property they will remove. I have not found anything related for Kirkland and How can I know if the branch from the tree was actually from my neighbor's or the city?

The backyard seems to be connecting to a series of townhouses which might have an HOA. What do I do from here? Would contacting them would be beneficial or would it be my responsibility to remove and fix the fence?

Checking PSE looks like Rose Hill/Downtown/Everest outage has someone looking at it. Snyders Corner also has a repair crew on site. Fingers crossed we aren’t all in the dark again tonight.

While thankful I have my power back on - I’m missing my internet. I’m on Goodwill Hill off 90th. Anyone get their internet back yet?

Hi Kirkland! Unexpectedly will be living up here for a bit to attend to some family matters - any job leads in the restaurant biz would be appreciated - I have 10 years in that field! Thank you so much!

First off not here to complain AT ALL. I've got internet and power so, yay! I was just curious if anyone else in the Juanita area is without ATT phone/sms service? I checked the website and it seems to say all clear...

Praise be to the PSE! Thank you!! Hope everyone else is too, or will soon follow.

Some of us sitting ducks here might actually be able to help. Is anyone organizing volunteering crews?

Hey everyone, unfortunately payday didn't agree with the weather and I am affluent with 7 cents to my name and need supplies while power is out. Is there anywhere giving out free meals or ice to we that are blessed only by financial struggle? (I have food in the fridge but it all requires power to cook and don't want it to go bad)

What the actual fuck.

Location: Snyder's Corner

Context: In the past month or so, I've seen homemade posters placed in public spots (ie telephone poles) calling out a neighbor who has been littering their Starbucks cups. The poster contains photos, name, location/time where they can be found, and accompanied by 1st person text in the voice of the neighbor requesting public mockery.

Request: Please do not engage in public shaming and attempts to illicit further public mockery of your neighbors.

I agree that littering is really really bad. But this does not solve the issue and only escalates. At most it is a dangerous exacerbation of the issue.

As someone who still doesn’t have power, I’ve been keeping up with the live map, and I must say — the response over the last 12 hours from PSE and emergency response teams has been nothing short of amazing