Waiting to here from Curtis in Vernonia. All is fine here in Washougal, We have little problem with these storms from the coast, Its the ice storms out of the Gorge that get us here. Waiting for Lewis river photos from Darren.
Posted by Marc Adamus on December 4, 2007 at 2:01 PM
My stream overflowed and pushed a bunch of debris over the culvert, down the street, and into my neighboors perfectly manicured yard. But I'm not too upset about it.
Posted by Marc Dilley on December 4, 2007 at 2:57 PM
In Cashmere on the east side, I had to blow snow off my driveway three times on Sunday.
Posted by Harald Rust on December 4, 2007 at 3:58 PM
In Olympia, I've never seen so much rain come down so fast in the 20+ years that I've lived here. Yesterday I did some pj type shooting, mostly by the westside Top Foods supermarket. The streets there turned into a big lake, surprisingly deep, and 6 cars were submerged up to their roofs. Some were rafting on the flooded streets . Now it's all dried up again. The Tumwater Falls are roaring, might be an interesting photo op, but the water looks very muddy.
Harald
Posted by Mark Hudon on December 4, 2007 at 9:15 PM
It's pretty wet in Hood River, all our snow is gone but no damage or flooding of any kind that I know of. I did have to go outside to get some beer at the grocery store and one of my socks got wet. I think I can handle it though.
A small tree in our yard split into 3 segments... it kinda looks like a funky squashed candleabra! Of greater concern (to my wife and daughter at least) is our non-functioning sewer line but the tree still serves the K-9's as well as ever. Tillamook suffered power loss, some damage to roofing and a few fences blown down but nothing like the 96 storm when dairy livestock was being hauled to higher ground. Bay city was hardest hit but I haven't seen any footage yet since cable just came back online at 4 PM today. I did hear rumors of a PU being washed off the road into either the Miami or Nehalem river and niether the rig or occupant(s?) has been recovered... I hope it was just a rumor.
Posted by Greg Vaughn on December 4, 2007 at 10:42 PM
Regarding Curtis' situation, here's part of an Associated Press story on the storm:
"In Oregon, a mountain timber town called Vernonia was largely cut off by landslides, but National Guard trucks with high clearance were able to get in. Troops used inflatable rafts to evacuate flooded residents from the small community on the Nehalem River, about 35 miles northwest of Portland."
Posted by Mike Dawson on December 5, 2007 at 12:05 AM
Yakima here, no flooding but one casualty. My wife slid into garage door in the snow last week and I am afraid the Garage Door is terminal and won't make it. The foot of snow we had is gone. I have to head to Seattle tomorrow so that should be interesting. Hope everyone else is well!
Posted by Adrian Klein on December 5, 2007 at 12:59 AM
Well, at least my basement faired better than last years rain storm thanks to our new sump pump drainage system (and the basement is where my office is). Otherwise I would say things may not be so pretty here!
Posted by Tom Kloster on December 5, 2007 at 2:56 AM
We had a section of our back fence blow down, and I did a very damp repair job, since my better half was freaked out that our dogs would escape. It might just be the ugliest fence repair in the history of man, but it will hold. I was at work at the time, so drove home and back over lunch -- the wind and rain on the bluff in North Portland (where we live) was spectacular! Driving down Willamette, it looked like the bluff was suddenly the edge of the ocean, with spray blowing over the road... a preview of global warming..?
Sure appreciate your concern Kevin. I hope Curtis, in Vernonia, is okay; will be looking for a post from him to say so. Tom, yes, I do believe we are living the preview or the preliminaries of global warming. Scary as h***! All is well where I am in Seattle, but you don't have to go very far to see some pretty hairy stuff. Take care everyone...
We're drying out, too, from the rains. It seems over the years drainage from our gutter lets water toward the foundation. The window well was full of water. And with an old window...the water went right into our storage room full of boxes.
We got everything out in the nick of time, but the basement is a mess. It's drying now, and I've rerouted the gutter to way back in the yard. I'll probably regrade the back yard this spring.
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15 repliesHarald
"In Oregon, a mountain timber town called Vernonia was largely cut off by landslides, but National Guard trucks with high clearance were able to get in. Troops used inflatable rafts to evacuate flooded residents from the small community on the Nehalem River, about 35 miles northwest of Portland."
We got everything out in the nick of time, but the basement is a mess. It's drying now, and I've rerouted the gutter to way back in the yard. I'll probably regrade the back yard this spring.
But it's nothing like Chehalis
Kevin