Ah, the joys of living in the Pacific Northwet.

[kyrielle]

Spelling deliberate. First, for anyone watching the weather news, the hurricane-force winds are on the coast; we're two hours inland. We're getting strong winds, but not that strong. (Poor old landmark sitka spruce, though; it fell to the storm.)

What we are getting is rain. Lots and lots of rain. Some of the flooding and power outages are in places I could drive to fairly quickly. None are in places I drive normally. For those who remember that we have a creek out back of our house, it is farther down and non-existent in summer, tiny in winter. It's not going to come in and drown our house.

Scott and I, and our usual places to be, are all fine. The weather's a little dramatic, though. My radio station, during the traffic report, was mock-referring to Foster Road as Foster River. (They had something like 10-20 blocks of it closed down due to flooding that would be headlight-high on a van or mini-van. How do we know it would be headlight-high on one? Because someone tried to drive it anyway. Oops.)

The coast is having a less-than-fun time of it, however. To put it mildly. Peak gust, Bay City, 129 mph. Power outages, flooding, high winds; what else do we need? But as noted, mostly the coast.

Last week, someone I know said they wished they could be on the coast to watch the storm.

I'm just as glad I wasn't, thanks.

Comments

[phoenixscribe.livejournal.com]

You know, flooding here is VERY temporary -- like a couple of hours until the water all runs away when it realizes it's not supposed to be here.

And I don't think I've ever had a power outage due to floods. Fire, winds, tornadoes, earthquakes, sure. Floods? No. And I don't think you can have a power outage from a drought, so I think I'm safe.

[kyrielle]

I think the outages were mostly winds, the flooding at most contributed by loosening the dirt around power poles, and I doubt that added as much as the wind.

[phoenixscribe.livejournal.com]

:P

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

"It's not that the wind is blowin'... It's what the wind is blowin." Glad you're not having it too bad where you are.

[kyrielle]

Hee. Thank you. :)