storm coming your way

[Dave]

Anyone East of here should brace yourself. The last several days we had a whale of a storm roll through here. Lots of rain and high winds. Broke some records for rainfall and they recorded a 98 MPH wind up at the Crystal Mt ski resort. This morning we even had lots of thunder and lightning. We don't get much lightning here and never in December let alone at 5:00 in the morning. So there is a lot of energy in this storm and we are sending it your way.

 

[TexasBred]

Been seeing all that weather up in that area. Didn't know if you lived close to the areas having the real bad stuff or not. Stay safe.

 

[Alan]

We really got hammered last night, the worst water damage I have seen in the 20 yrs of living in this area. We got high wind but the only tree down a saw was the one that fell across our driveway last night.... Firewood now. We live at the end of a dead end gravel road about 2 miles long, heavy damage due to rain, at one spot about 25% of the road is gone due to a mud slide. Luckily it's not blocking the road it went down the hill but took some of the road with it leaving about a 20 ft sheer drop. Hwy 30 is closed in the 20 mile strip I drive due to three different mud slides. I met with a county road worker that was inspecting our road and he said very politely they have so many slides and washouts on the county roads it may be a while to fix ours. After a short drive to survey things he's correct. Lots of running water over roads and creek side houses now live in the middle of lakes, lots of flooding on the creeks. The Columbia is the only river close to us on the Oregon side so it's no problem. We get around 80 inches of rain a year but last night was a over load for our drainage system.

Dave, you doing okay with flooding on your place? Is the river handling it our is your place flooded? Take care of your new bride and yourself.

Alan

 

[Dave]

Alan, The new bride is going through culture shock. Yesterday she put on a rain hat and my rain coat to do some things outside. She found out real quick that rain pants are also needed in a storm like that. Fourteen years owning a ranch three hours south of Burns didn't prepare her for this climate. But she is pretty hardy. She will adjust.

The river level they were predicting would have put me on an island but they have backed off that prediction some. The road to the west is closed but I shouldn't get water over the road to the east. Summer pasture is all under water. The slough half way back at home will be full but last night I locked all the cows up by the barn. I will ride this out just fine. They are saying that there is another storm on its way....... I will be fine. The new bride may leave me by the time spring gets here.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

My brother came over Snoqualmie from the west side last night -- said it was raining hard and blowing like crazy. He was hauling one of those molded fiberglass greenhouses to me; he said, "No worries, sis! This thing can handle 70 mph winds easy!" We got rain at our place yesterday, but not the big winds predicted. Today -- gorgeous! Sunshine and hardly a breeze. I think Dave and Alan's storm hit further south of us. We got about 3" of snow Saturday; rained all day Sunday and all day Tuesday. Yak River is UP alot. Couldn't see the level when I came home this evening, but this morning the neighbor's flood warning device -- the picnic table tied to a tree in his front yard -- was getting real close to water.

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

We're on top of the hill so nothing underwater, but with 8.5 inches of rain since Saturday midnight my pasture is soggy!

Both my pumps are on lone to neighborhood buddies.

 

[Alan]

Mostly more bad news this morning but some good news, the next weather front hit us about 4 am and has been raining hard since with pretty steady winds. At 6 am I went down to the hwy to see if it was opened and to see if the had the mud slide cleared, a total of five slides closed hwy 30 in about a 20 mile section yesterday. Good news it's open and we can get to work without winding through the back roads. But I-5 north bound, just north of Portland, is closed due to a pretty big mud slide so all traffic to Seattle is being sent west bound on Hwy 30 to cross the bridge at Longview and hit I-5 north there. Bumper to bumper, note to myself, stay off the hwy west bound today.

I know this has nothing to do with the vast majority of CT folks, just touching base with some PNW CT friends. I did hear Dave's new bride has packed her bags and has headed back to Burns..... :hide: :lol2:

 

[backhoeboogie]

I know this has nothing to do with the vast majority of CT folks, just touching base with some PNW CT friends.

I spent a couple of years in Vancouver/Portland area. Still have two distant cousins there. Worked in Longview for a few weeks. My baby girl was born in Vancouver in '85. We have fond memories of the area and we are familiar with the roads you are discussing.

 

[Dave]

Mostly more bad news this morning but some good news, the next weather front hit us about 4 am and has been raining hard since with pretty steady winds. At 6 am I went down to the hwy to see if it was opened and to see if the had the mud slide cleared, a total of five slides closed hwy 30 in about a 20 mile section yesterday. Good news it's open and we can get to work without winding through the back roads. But I-5 north bound, just north of Portland, is closed due to a pretty big mud slide so all traffic to Seattle is being sent west bound on Hwy 30 to cross the bridge at Longview and hit I-5 north there. Bumper to bumper, note to myself, stay off the hwy west bound today.

I know this has nothing to do with the vast majority of CT folks, just touching base with some PNW CT friends. I did hear Dave's new bride has packed her bags and has headed back to Burns..... :hide: :lol2:

This one today isn't supposed to be that big but there is another big one headed our way on Saturday. You got to love winter in the PNW.

The people in Seattle will be throwing a fit. They always do when something slows the stream of trucks headed north on I-5. Traffic through down town Longview has got to be a disaster about now. I don't really like going over the Lewis and Clark bridge on a good day. I would really hate creeping over it in stop and go bumper to bumper traffic.

New bride hasn't headed east just yet. She is staying busy indoors reorganizing all of my stuff.......

 

[chrisy]

over here in England we have copped the tail end of Hurricane Kate, it has caused a lot of wind and rain, and flooding in the North of the Country, here in Essex/London we just have heavy rain and not much wind thankfully. If they shut the Thames barrier it might be a different story with flooding as we sit in the London Basin.

 

[Dave]

Well they are saying I-5 northbound is closed for at least another 24 hours. Highway 12 over White Pass will be closed for quite a while, the East bound lane is completely washed out into different places. Might wash out the whole road by the time it is over. It takes some serious scenic routes to get into Southwest Washington right now. I am thinking that boat or plane are about the only options but with this weather I don't think would want to try either of those.

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

I didn't travel by plane today Dave, but the Boat ride from Southworth to Fauntleroy was a rough one. The Ferry took a whole different angle to the dock with the wind.

Wife said the Narrows Bridge was scary. :lol: