Western Washington battles widespread flooding
KOMO:
WESTERN WASHINGTON — After a night of heavy rain, lingering flooding — both the urban and river version — are causing issues in western Washington.
Nearly two dozen rivers are under flood warnings, meaning flooding is imminent or already happening, and nearly a dozen rivers experienced major flooding. MORE. h/t illustr8r
Video from Instagram- “seattle.looks.like.shxt“:
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I’m in the yellow area on her left shoulder. Just wait for video of salmon swimming across hwy 101. It happens every year.
You and illustr8r have my home address. Plenty of bedrooms. The Jacuzzi is damn near always on, The smokers always going. Man would we have fun cooking MEAT. LOL
That would damn sure turn a bad day into a good day. I’m lined up to smoke salmon this weekend, in fact I’m committed. I don’t think it will get that bad for our neighborhood, but no doubt there will be some families hurting. The reality is, here in western Washington, in general, we are pussies! For example, they will cancel school based on a weather forecast of 3” of snow overnight. I could go on, but I won’t.
Just so you know you, illustr8r, and Meli are family and always welcome here. I also have a ton of guns, LOL.
Had a bit of wind Friday night that uprooted my blue spruce, lifting the slab in the kennel run and fell into my tool shed. Surprising everyone the tool shed caught it and that kept it from going through the power lines. It hit the lines tripping the breaker and the top twenty feet of the tree snapped off and landed in the street. Power went off and I was in my shop working on a rifle. I heard the tree snap, and the arcing of the power before the power went out. I reached over and turned on an LED work light and heard the kids coming down the stairs yelling about the tree. The power came back on and we went out through the carriage house door to take a look see what the damage was. The tree settled a bit and a limb hit the transformers blowing one and setting the tree on fire. It was going pretty good and burned through the limbs on the bottom side dropping it onto the second transformer blowing it, that blew the fire out. Anyway, Tacoma Power showed up about a a half hour later and I went to bed. When I woke up at 05:00 power was on, the tree was cut off a couple feet above my shed roof and other than that everything was back to normal.
I‘ve had everyone from TPU, to the Fire Department to my insurance adjuster tell me that if they hadn’t seen it they wouldn’t believe that it didn’t flatten my equipment shed. Heck, or at least knock it off the foundation and come through the power lines. I doubled up the end rafters when I built it. I think the only real damage is to that end set of rafters and the drywall. It buckled the sheeting, but it’s been raining pretty heavy and the shingles are still watertight. We might be able to get in from the end by pulling the siding off and replace that rafter and call it good.
It is about 30” caliber tree and was about 125’ tall. If I’m going to build something it’s going to build it so it stays built.