Boy Howdy.
You may or may not have heard about these Atmospheric Rivers we have been dealing with here in the Pacific NorthWest for over a week but I’m here to tell you that these things are no joke.
They come out of the SouthEast clear from over by New Zealand and just piledrive water, wind and seasonally warm temperatures right into the Pacific Northwest, relentlessly.
There is massive flooding going on North of me clear to British Columbia and it’s not supposed to stop until like this coming weekend.
Inches of rain, PER DAY and saturated soil means rivers going over full flood stage, dikes failing and entire valleys completely flooded from foothill to foothill along with the cities, towns and communities in them.
On top of that, there are Blizzards happening in the upper mountain passes with lots and lots of road closures.
Last night, The Winds hit.
And they hit hard around here. My buddy told me at work yesterday that they clocked a wind gust up on Mt. Hood at 138 miles an hour.
Here locally, the lights went out at 1:28 AM last night and they didn’t get power restored at my house for 12 hours.
My buddy lives up on a big hill just North of Washougal, about 20 miles east of here and he has 100 foot Fir trees all over his property. He sent me a picture of part of his yard after he got home yesterday afternoon showing the top of a huge Fir tree that had broken off and landed in his yard. Just the top, was 10 inches across and he got massively lucky because it landed IN BETWEEN his and his wife’s cars without toucjing either one of them.
The people up North of me, between here and the Seattle area, have been double and triple fucked by these storms with videos of entire houses and large barns floating down rivers. Some people have literally lost everything they own and there are massive mandatory evacuations up and down the Western part of the state.
Oregon didn’t excape unscathed and they have similar issues going on in some places down there, mainly closer to the coast.
It ain’t over by a long shot and this is going to go down in history as one of the greatest series of storms ever recorded.
If you are the praying kind, there are a few MILLION people who would certainly appreciate you saying a few for them.
By some stroke of luck, other than the power going out last night, we have so far remained relatively unscathed here.
I Thank God for sparing us that.
Prayers for you and all those affected by these storms.
Prayers sent
Years ago, when I lived in the Seattle area (Maple Valley), when we had the inaugural day storm and were without power in our area for 2 weeks. Roads blocked, everything closed, houses toasted. Our local bar had a generator and provided scant light and brews. Became a popular community hub of sorts, was cool to see. Me and my chainsaw earned a LOT of money cleaning up everywhere.
If Seattle gets fucked in the ass and has to cry and ask Trump for help (which he should just give each person $750) it would be worth it.
Trump doesn’t give money to blue states.
Do to circulation, atmospjeric rivers do not cross the equator. The best we can offer is the N Pac high pulling moisture up and in (north and east). Meaning for the PNW,, moisture from north of 30°
Mother nature just reminding us we don’t own this planet, we’re just tenants. And could be evicted at any time.
Grew up in the Skagit Valley in the 40’s & 50’s. That’s why I live on a big hill in Eastern Washington now..
My Cousins in Morton and Montesano have been lucky, no major problems. They are sick of the rain though. It seems that the storm track has finally shifted a bit. We are finally getting some storms here in “North” Californistan.
Yup, major flooding all around. Couldn’t get in or out of my small town for a few days. Been through this before. Doesn’t happen often, but when it does, people go crazy. All the store shelves are emptied in hours.
Here on the other side of the lake, despite the Met Office’s endless – and expensively funded – scaremongering about storms, all we’ve had is winter weather. Translated, that means months on end of pissing rain and 10/10ths cloud with the accompanying mental depression.
If the weather spirits are listening, we’d love a Christmas blizzard, preferably after we’ve got back from our son’s and Christmas dinner. He’s an ex-chef and really pulls out all the stops: you just wouldn’t want to be the one washing up after him . . .
It’s called weather for a reason, hang tight Phil.
Funny the nations news media doesn’t mention this, only Rob Reiner all day, every day.
Friends of ours sent us videos of the downtown Spokane Falls (a river runs through it…) and the flow is simply insane! Just wait until it snows….
Here in the Greater Salt Lake area we had a barnburner of a weather front pass by, “trimming” all the trees. No snow – yet. Gosh, must be Gorebull Wormering we’ve been repeatedly warned about.
*snort*
Oh, and now the Talking Heads are now warning us about the FLUFLUFLU just as if it doesn’t start up its cycle about now.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Bah.
I’m in your neck of the woods and am waiting for snow up on the big hill so I can begin ski season. It’s been nasty driving on 5 every day fo sho.
Prayers for anyone in the path of the storm
This explains why we are having a nice dry spell here in NZ. Send back our water and stop whining.