PNW Storm

[BikeMomma]

I hear there is some reeeeally nasty weather and flooding up there in Washington State and parts of Oregon. Everybody ok? Worried about you guys.

Roll call please!

~BikeMomma

[KnottedYet]

Most of us here in Seattle are pretty good (at least the ones I've heard from). I haven't seen pictures on the news, but I've seen some pretty decent flooding on my commute. My apartment complex has sump pumps going to handle the juicy bits.

Just turned on the TV, and heard that south of Seattle there are 8 feet of water over Interstate 5.

[salsabike]

Have heard from most and they are OK---me, Mimi, Teigyr, Eden, Knott (although sounds like the water got close to her apartment).

[mimitabby]

sounds like about 100 families in the state had to be evacuated. this isnt a giant thing like Katrina/New Orleans; just spotty where drains backed up or couldn't handle the water.

[sgtiger]

We're good, too. There was a gigantic pond in the lower area of the parking lot of our apartment complex and I heard a few of the apartments on that side did get breached but that the damage was minor. The local sanitation company was pretty quick about sending out pumping trucks, so I'm thankful for that.

[Dianyla]

Things are fine down in Portland. My biggest annoyance is that my cellphone service is down because T-Mobile's datacenter in WA flooded. I think it doesn't affect contract cell users, but because I have a cheap prepaid non-plan I'm without service.

[elk]

Got away lightly this time....lost phone for awhile.
Several friends have trees in their houses...

Back in '95 a wind storm knocked out power for 5 days...no heat no lights...we bought a gas "wood" stove to mitigate that problem..

Typical winter weather here... I never used to fear the wind...but I do NOW!

[Starfish]

Yeah, the wind on top of the rain...the ground is soggy and the trees go over.

I'm OK out here on the Peninsula where I am. For work, our Centralia office is under about 6 feet of water. At least they got the copier out first, and no one was in danger.

[teigyr]

Starfish, I was worried about you. I guess I kept hearing horror stories about the wind on the peninsula.

Our house is fine. I'm glad it's over though! A person I work with lives in Chehalis so she can't get to work due to the freeway closure.

DH grew up in the house where we live now and says that storms really don't cause problems. I guess the property drains well, there's a sump pump for the basement, and we never/rarely lose power.

[dex]

My biggest problems were trying to figure out if I could drive my car through the water in some of the low-lying intersections in the Montlake neighborhood. (You don't think about how little clearance a Miata has until you're faced with a few inches of standing water.)

My house is on a hill, so I wasn't worried about flooding at home. Mud/land slides, on the other hand...I wasn't really sleeping very restfully for a couple of days. Last winter (sometime early this year), there was a slide on one of the properties a couple of doors down from me. I'm constantly waiting for the ground to slip out from underneath the house I live in. (With any luck, I'll be moving in a couple of months and won't have to think about that anymore.)

[bikerHen]

We were even a little soggy over here on the dryside. Two day of snow, then lots of rain and wind. Nothing like the wetside, but the streets were way, WAY too sloppy to ride to work on Monday. Then Tuesday was warm enough to ride to work with just my wind vest and long sleeves. Crazy weather! bikerHen

[Susan126]

I live on top of a big hill so I am okay as far as flooding. We sure are getting a lot of "pineapple" expresses these last few years! Enough please! Glad to hear everyone is okay!

[lauraelmore1033]

The flooding and winds didn't seem to be any worse for us in Everett than they were last year. I also noticed that my favorite walking trail beside the snohomish river is still open and the trail was untouched by the water. Last year it was closed for a month!

[MM_QFC!]

OK here too...I live a few blocks from the Sound in Edmonds and it sure got windy, but was lucky to not have any power outages or flooding.

[mimitabby]

Raleighdon discovered that one of his trails (west of the downtown corridor) is covered with muddy silt from water overflow. It was pretty scary to discover this in the dark.