Foo - To those on the NW coast:

Hope everyone is safe and sound.
I was watching the weather channel this morning, and holy moly, that looks nasty up in Oregon and Washington. The said one place had a wind gust of 129 mph! Cripes, that'll blow you around.

According to weather.com for Bellevue, WA

From S at 14 mph
gusting to 21 mph

Nothing to worry about here at the moment.

Thanks though.

Nothing to worry about here at the moment.

Thanks though.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.php?p=5741015&postcount=22182

Picture from my commute home last night. While Bellevue and Redmond are mostly OK from the wind and flooding, Woodinville got slammed pretty hard.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.php?p=5741015&postcount=22182

First off, are you in the Federal Witness Protection Program? :D

Seriously, nice pic (other than the focus thing). It looks like a REALLY tough commute!

... Brad

Here is a slideshow of the flooding in Vernonia, about 18 miles from where I live. The National Guard is there now.

Vernonia, OR flooding (http://www.kptv.com/slideshow/news/14762565/detail.html)

http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.php?p=5741015&postcount=22182

Picture from my commute home last night. While Bellevue and Redmond are mostly OK from the wind and flooding, Woodinville got slammed pretty hard.

Didn't see anything like that over here. Of course....I'm all in the high ground area and you are down where our water washes to. What are you still doing down there anyway? :p

I saw the weather reports last night too. Hope you are all safe & dry.

Oh, Northwest. I was beginning to wonder if I'd ridden through a post-apocalyptic war zone and hadn't noticed.

Instead, it's raining in the northwest? No way! :p

Instead, it's raining in the northwest? No way! :pLOL.....don't do that when I'm right in the middle of a mouthful of coffee. :mad::p

First off, are you in the Federal Witness Protection Program? :D

Seriously, nice pic (other than the focus thing). It looks like a REALLY tough commute!

... Brad

It was a pic from my phone, and the rain on the lens blurred it all up.

My friend Matt has another theory though, since I am part Sasquatch: What if Sasquatch is just... blurry?

Thanks for the concern, but it's supposed to be 80 degrees, sunny, and clear today. :D (i'm in LA)

Thanks for the concern, but it's supposed to be 80 degrees, sunny, and clear today. :D (i'm in LA)

Then I'm concerned for your lungs...or is smog seasonal there?

My friend Matt has another theory though, since I am part Sasquatch: What if Sasquatch is just... blurry?

You will want to test this with pix from several cameras. You may be a ...... BIG FOOT:

http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/bigfootfocus3.jpg

... Brad

I just wanted to say good luck and that my thoughts and good energies are going out to you.

I didn't see this posted yet, so sorry if it's a repost.

If your internet is down, I guess you're not reading this... Heh.

Anywho, my thoughts are out to all of you.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/12/04/us/04weather-600.jpg

The interstate is closed between Portland and Seattle, I'm glad I live up away from the rivers and creeks.

The coast has really been hammered, Bremerton Washington got 10.8 inches of rain.

NY Times story (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/us/04cnd-storm.html?hp)

The coast has really been hammered, Bremerton Washington got 10.8 inches of rain.pffft.....FL got that about 3 or 4 times every year in hurricane/storm season.

What's up on the NE coast? I must have missed it.

Or did you mean the NW coast?

It rains more in Houston too, but the highest rainfalls in the PNW aren't in the valleys or the cities, the highest rainfalls are in the coastal mountains and the western Cascades.

Is there anyplace in Florida that can claim more than 180 inches of rain per year?

:)

http://www.ocs.orst.edu/pub/maps/Precipitation/Total/States/WA/wa.gif

Oh, yeah

Damn me and my turned around ways!

Mod, can you change that?!

EDIT: Or was it because "E" and "W" are next to eachother...

Thanks SingingSabre. It's nice to see someone besides me do that once in awhile.

You're welcome. I understand. Schadenfreude and all....

So what is/was this all about?

Flooding. http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=367870

Oh. Whoa.

Then I'm concerned for your lungs...or is smog seasonal there?
Alas, smog is not seasonal... :( Except when it rains. You'll get afew exceptionally clear days after a good rainstorm. Then back to the brown/orange sky. :lol: :(

Thanks, unnamed mod!

Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. It does that here every year. Ho hum.

The coast is worse off than usual and they haven't shut down I-5 in 12 years.

...and as of this afternoon was under 10ft of water!

My garage was flooded, but not much damage. One of my employees was stranded where she lives in Columbia County. She's on a hill, but surrounded by flooding. Her car couldn't make it through.

Here's a thread in the PNW forum. (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=367479)

Thanks, unnamed mod!

Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

it is................. what I do.:D

BTW, the company my wife works for has a regional home office in Spokane. It was shut down by a power outage of some sort today, that was in some way weather related. Ya'll keep your heads down and be safe.

It rains more in Houston too, but the highest rainfalls in the PNW aren't in the valleys or the cities, the highest rainfalls are in the coastal mountains and the western Cascades.

Is there anyplace in Florida that can claim more than 180 inches of rain per year?

:)

The issue isn't necessarily that it rains a lot near the river valleys or cities. It's that all the mountain runoff has to go somewhere, and when the ground is saturated it means the overflow heads to the mountain streams. Those streams feed to the foothill streams, which run to the lowland rivers, and out to the Sound. When the foothills get 12" of snow followed by 10" of rain, it all heads for the lowland cities like Woodinville.

thanks for the thoughts, it is our annual brush with the weather. Last year was much worse when we had winds over 100 mph. high winds and 80-100 foot trees don't mix.

I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. It does that here every year. Ho hum.

Actually, it hasn't done that since 1996 when the rainfall continued at a similar rate for 7 days instead of just two. This week, the water came up to about the same height for only one day. In 1996 it stayed high for a week.

It doesn't do this every year. I-5 at the Chehalis River:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2077/2087218573_8f1ab3e79c.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2299/2088004892_4ab0cc3020.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2109/2087218611_8ffc6f8a27.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2118/2088004808_15c448db34.jpg

^^^
No wonder I-5 won't be opening until at least tomorrow...or later if there's been structural damage :( .

East Hill

it is................. what I do.:D

BTW, the company my wife works for has a regional home office in Spokane. It was shut down by a power outage of some sort today, that was in some way weather related. Ya'll keep your heads down and be safe.

Thank you oh great and mighty mod!

It doesn't do this every year. I-5 at the Chehalis River:

That's up my parents' way. My girlfriend's family actually lost some cattle and we know a few people who got rescued by helicopter near Pe Ell (Yes that's the name of a town. See the picture of the kayak above). I love the photo of people using the exit ramp by Walmart as a boat launch.

This is what the local meteologists call a "100 year flood." It happens about once a decade in SW Washington.

It's kind of weird, because except for some minor flooding in the SE part of town and other isolated areas, it wasn't much worse than a typical winter storm here in Portland...everywhere around the city, however...

Here's a picture from the 1996 flood. This is a double-deck bridge and the Willamette River is actually running across the bike lane on the east side. Normally there would be a good 20 feet of clearance.

http://home.teleport.com/~jpaclark/SB1.JPEG