PNW Storm

[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!