The storm that would last a lifetime: Activist Charlene Strong remembers how her fight began

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 5 p.m.

This story originally aired on February 13, 2016. In mid-December of 2006, a vicious wind storm hit Western Washington. Gale-force winds knocked out power, knocked down trees and knocked Charlene Strong onto a different life path. When Strong arrived home she found her wife, Kate, trapped inside the basement of their home. Water was rushing in, and as each moment passed, it seemed less and less likely that Kate would survive. Charlene Strong did lose her wife that night and then went on to