Must be Our Turn

[Black wallnut]

After two weeks of near zero temps and record snow fall we now have a warming trend. The Cascades are being pounded by extremely heavy rainfall, forcasts of possible over 1 foot of rain, storm total. So now we have widespread flooding. Passes are closed etc. If the rain was not bad enough the warming winds is also melting rapidly the heavy snowpack!

[Whaler]

The storm is bad enough that we are getting rained on here in Sequim.

[germdoc]

Stay dry!

By the time it gets to us, if there's any moisture left, it will be more snow...

[shoottx]

Well it might be time for that famous southern California expression "Surfs UP"

[crokett]

We have gotten enough rain the last few weeks here that I am pretty sure the drought we had in '07 is broken. I think we made up some of that rainfall in '08.

[BobSch]

We'll be getting that rain as snow later this week. Then next week they're talking about -20 temps.

Spring starts when??

[Hoover]

My wife and I live near the Puget Sound in WA. Just north of us the Stillaguamish River has just been announced for major flooding, to our south the Snohomish River the same.
We live on top of a hill 500 feet above sea level, pondering whether to buy sand bags!!!

[Ed62]

We saw some video of what you guys are getting. It didn't look good. I hope everyone gets through it in good shape.

Ed

[Pappy]

Ya,ll enjoy them cold temps. Wind chill here this morning was 17. That was at 70mph on my bike. With the insulated jump suit and gloves still a nice ride. This afternoon coming home I wore my leather vest. Beautiful riding weather!

[DUD]

We are back up into the 50's around here, but I know it will change. Bill

[Whaler]

This corner of WA is now an island. All mountain passes are closed so you can't go east. I-5 is flooded and closed at Chehalis so no way in or out that way. Good excuse to lock myself in the shop.

[Mrs. Wallnut]

An update from our little town. The mountain passes are still closed and most of the trucks that were going to take Satus pass and go to Seattle area or come this way are now stuck also. They have closed a section of Interstate 5, so there is no way to get to Portland either, well I am sure there is but trucks are pretty much stuck.

In Ellensburg, we still have flooding and I think they said there are about 200 people not in their homes right now because they are still flooded. We have a neighbor who has a cabinet shop down in the area that has been hit the worst, was able to get in there this morning and put sandbags around the place and push the at least foot of water out of his shop and rescue his wood and get his saws and other things put up above the water level. My parents are friends of his and I just talked with my mother and she said that they (my parents) had been helping him since about 8 this morning. I have seen them haul a truck load of wood to his shop here at his house across the street from us.

Here is the local newspaper articles:
http://www.kvnews.com/

So far our house and shop are okay. But we are also higher than where the major flooding is taking place.

[Hoover]

Yesterday the town of Orting, on the west side of Mount Rainier was ordered to evacuate everyone. The town of Fife, just north of Tacoma was ordered to do the same.
Yes all the mountain passes are closed, so no traffic east or west of the Cascades is moving. A 20 mile portion of I-5 south of Tacoma was closed with water over the road.
It is a real mess over here in western Washington.

[Mr__Bill]

Y'all can still escape to Canada or take the ferry to Alaska! Better escape while you can!


Bill, formerly of Tacoma