battening down the hatches in WA?

I'm surprised at all the people that live in western WA on this forum!!!!
We live at the top of a hill in town but we have a tree farm outside of town. Theres a creek out there that flooded last winter so I imagine its flooded now. Won't get a chance to go check on things out there till tomorrow though. I live about 25 miles from work ( work in Oly/Lacey). Getting to and from work the last few days has been a harrowing experience - especially at night. There are a lot of wrecks. It amazes me that people don't slow down.
My other half is heading to elk camp up in the higher country tomorrow. I think he'll probably get wet....

Glo

It is amazing to me that there are still as many people out on the roads as there are in this weather, with all the water over the roads, at 7:30 at night!! I was supposed to go back into Lacey tonight to work for another couple hours--but called to say I couldn't make it( since I am the "boss" I can do that! --with all the cars still out and about it more than doubles the danger, in my experience anyway! Going to be interesting how everyone fairs with harder rain expected tomorrow--hope you are all warm and dry!!

I'm in Yelm and its raining like crazy.

The river is still amazingly high, but at least the road is open. Went to GF today, there is a small development (on the river!!!) where the road was closed yesterday. Saw into the backyards of the houses facing the road, they looked pretty much scoured clean of anything even partially moveable. Lots of missing fences. Couldn't see much of the houses right on the river, but they must have gone under at least 6 feet. All those huge trees coming through must have done a good job on many of them.
Still raining but supposed to be showers. Tomorrow I find out what the Arlington end looks like.

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Guess this year was to be a reminder to folks of why it's called a "flood" plain... BECAUSE IT FLOODS!



I was fishing here just a few weeks ago.

It's almost over here. Tillamook, OR has had the worst flooding since 1996.Actually broke records. By The grace of God, our house is dry and our other living quarters are dry. Everywhere else on our little property in under water. Our barn had 8 inches of water on the floor. I hope the waters continue to recede. There are so many here who lost homes that weren't technically in the flood plain. I hope all of you in WA are doing OK. Amazing pictures.

crystal

Checking in from Wenatchee Wa. here! We live on the Wenatchee River--as close as you can get anyway, we're a 2 acre walk from our fence line to the banks of the river usually lol But as of 6am today the river is flooding half through the barn and stalls, the greenhouse, almost all the lower yard and has wiped out half my "just fenced for winter" section of the corral. I found myself out at 6am. nailing boards up on the goat stall to keep the in, luckily we built their stall as a raised stall so it's 3ft up from the ground But the water is under the barn and about knee deep outside the door of their stall--and we all know goats can't swim. Every hour today I went and checked on them (2 nigerian dwarfs and a pygmy) praying they don't get a wild hair and scale the boards to get out heck they're barely taller than the water lol. It's still rising as I type, averaging an extra 6inches further in every 3 hours and the news says we may get another 6-10 inches of rain in the next 2-3 days. Even if the rain hits up in the mountains we'll still get it living right next to the flood plain and all. However in 10 years this is the worst flood yet (earlier this spring had been record breaker for here)--we do flood about twice a year but this is the first time it may do some real damage to the outbuildings, otherwise it normally just takes all the leaves out of the yard and cleans the corral out for me Good Luck and By Gum Be Careful!!

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Here's the link to some pics of our flooding, of course these were taken early this morning and the water is actually in about 8ft faurther now, but it gives you the idea. We're lucky though so far, my son came home from school today saying some of his friends' famlies slept in their rigs in their driveways because their houses flooded--I think they're a bit further upriver from us closer to Monitor Wa. about 4 miles away. Over soon I hope.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rio002/

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We are in Sedro Woolley, 8 miles up the South skagit HWY in the part where the road veers a couple miles away from the Skagit River and a little up hill. So we are in no flood. However, the highway is closed at the Western head and again at milepost 14. Fortunately there is one road going up over the little mountain to get us out of here. The floods would have to rise about 5-6 more feet to get us stuck here. And I guess it's happened. Power was out Saturday for 18 hours (pigs took the opportunity with the downed electric to find the weak spot in the fence and visit the neighbors - FUN STUFF...no damage thankfully), but power outages are a part of life out here, we're prepared. Power has been off a few more times since for about 5 hours - and always after dark of course! Last night you could see the light from transformers going all over the place.

Feel good that we bought in no-flood. I have a friend with a farm in the flats of Mt. Vernon who was frantically moving her animals Monday. I still don't know how she faired.

River's receding now, I think this is only the beginning - more to come later.

Hope the rest of you are safe!

kids

Wow! Praying for everybody's safety.

I'm in NW Oregon, and our year round creek is fed by the Nehalem River. We have to cross the creek to get to the house. Our house is way up on the hill though so we are in no threat to be flooded. We do have to boat across though to get to our cars that we park on the other side of the creek when it floods. We personally love it. :baby04: Kinda like having a moat around your property, lol.

Here is looking down our driveway...the creek is the farthest water you can see. The rest of the water is just the creek spreading down the driveway and filling up the meadow on the right.


Here is a picture from the other side of the creek looking up the driveway. You can see the creek rushing over the driveway.


The meadow flooded. You can't even see the creek in this picture.


Just the creek forking off.

Have lots of family down there but I think they are doing ok. I phoned one in the most rural area but haven't heard from her yet (not atypical for her). Just hope her crawlspace isn't flooding anymore!!!

I went and checked at the level of the river because my mom asked if I have started to float away.

I live in an apartment complex on the Green River and I can see the water from the parking lot. It's fast moving and I was surprised to see logs floating down the river. Across the river are houses and most of their backyards are under water. I would estimate that the parking lot is two feet above the river.

jennigrey:

Just curious: are those pictures of Mayfield Lake in Lewis County?

I'm not on a creek, river or lake, but do have a hillside full of springs. Day before yesterday (Wednesday), the water was literally gushing out of the hill. Oh, well, the Muscovies love it, although they do look a little waterlogged. (I do worry about the hillside coming down, though. Hopefully there's enough trees, blackberries, etc. to hold it together.)

To get to my job on Monday morning, I have to drive through an area known as "Bear Canyon." The road is closed right now because of washout. Hopefully, they have it open somehow by the time I have to go to work because if I have to backtrack and take another route, it's going to be a real pain in the u-know-what! I already have to be up at 3:00 a.m. to get there on time in normal conditions!

Also, this a.m., it's still dark outside so I can't really tell what the skies are doing, but it is a little windy. Are we now going to get a windstorm? That probably won't do much good for the trees whose roots are saturated.

Also, the Packwood/Randall area of Lewis County is in pretty bad shape. I have to drive through there Sunday afternoon to pick up my kids. And, they're predicting more rain! Hopefully, it won't be as bad and the highway will be open.

No! Not a lake - everything this side of the dotted red line used to be a 40' wide slow, meandering backwater called the Snoqualmie River. Now it has spread out and taken over all two miles of the valley floor. The photo was taken in Snohomish County.