From falling trees to carbon monoxide poisoning, electrocution, fire and drowning, the windstorm that hit Western Washington on Thursday and Friday brought death in a chilling variety of ways. In all, at least eight people have been killed.

One was Kate Fleming, 41, who drowned in her Madison Valley basement Thursday night, trapped inside by rapidly rising floodwaters

The last was a man who appeared to be in his mid-30s and was electrocuted when he stepped on a downed power line while out walking his dog Sunday afternoon in Gig Harbor.

In between:

• Two people were killed Thursday in traffic accidents involving windblown trees in Pierce County. Harold J. Fox, 47, of Eatonville, died after swerving to avoid one falling tree and crashed into another tree. Bonney Bacus, 37, of Roy, died and her husband was critically injured when a tree fell on their pickup truck.

• In Grays Harbor County, a 28-year-old man was killed when the top of a tree snapped off, crashing into his home in a trailer park in McCleary, 18 miles west of Olympia.

• A 26-year-old Kirkland man was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in his home Saturday. A generator was running in the living room. At least 100 other people, as young as 11 months, were treated at Seattle-area hospitals after inhaling carbon monoxide.

• A Spanaway man, Steven Thielen, 48, died Saturday in a fire started by a candle burning in his powerless home.

• A 31-year-old Renton man was found dead at his home Sunday morning. He had been using a charcoal grill to heat his bedroom.

In the Gig Harbor incident, neighbors had been cleaning up debris around the power line for days, unaware that it was live, said Ed Troyer, spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff's Office. The man and his dog were dead at the scene.

People are advised to treat every fallen power line as if it were live and to stay at least 10 feet away.