Tide got a tad high on the estuary this afternoon. This is where the parking lot of a seafood cannery meets the river. Doesn’t usually meet it quite this intimately.
The dock on the left (below) is fixed and normally sits high above the water. The dock on the right floats. That bridge you see going UP between them usually goes DOWN, substantially so, when the world is as it should be.
The waterfront businesses became much more waterfronty. That’s not a big puddle you see there. That’s the tide coming in.
It was clear and dry when I took these (though windy as you can see by the bow atop the Christmas tree). Moments later, a bank of black, wind-driven clouds roared over. All the people photographing the flood or going to or from the little waterfront coffee house there (because the flood never detered anybody and there was a dry path in) ran like heck to get under cover. Rain. Hail, Thunder. All coming at us sideways. I was about 20 yards from Old Blue and was soaked to the skin by the time I got there.
People don’t run from rain in the NorthWET. That was as odd a sight as anything else.
All was well, though. These photos were taken at the peak of high tide. Just a few closed streets and a couple of businesses inaccessible for an hour or so. No serious damage anywhere that I could see.
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Ah! Obama was right! We’re all gonna get climate changed, and then drowned! I think I feel the temperature rising right now.
Holy carp Claire! Now hearing on the news about tornadoes and mudslides! You may need that wonderful clawfoot bathtub to hide in or float away in, not just to warm up after a drenching. Bet ML won’t want this latest weather twist sent to Wyoming.
Holy carp, indeed, Karen. I-5 (our main freeway) closed by a landslide and a tornado damaging homes and businesses very near that area, too. Yikes! Trust me, it was much calmer where I live despite our wild moments and our “global warming” storm tide.
I don’t know whether we should send these storms on their way to Wyoming or Colorado or Saskatchewan or where. I don’t wish them on any of you guys. Now, if we could export them directly over Mordor on the Potomac …
May I suggest Southern California, like L.A., where all those “socialists” live? Those actors must be absolutely thirsty after draining all the water for their lawns in the middle of the drought.
The weather has been kinda strange. We have had our share of wicked rain storms lately. This time last year there was a foot and a half of snow on the ground. Today I was outside working with just a light sweater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-5oGnvfUEU
It’s funny that in the NorthWET you guys feel about rain the same was as we feel about snow.
Just curious, how did your car do in the rain? Did you get the bilge pump running? :^)
Bring it on… 🙂 I’ve got the house all sealed up, firewood stacked, and it sits on a tall hill. BWAHAHAHA Today’s trip to the grocery store should set me up for the next two weeks or more. Of course, nobody WANTS a tornado. Send that to Mordor, definitely.
And don’t bother sending rain to So. Calif. Since they’ve got so much of the place paved over, the dumb clucks just let it all run out to the sea.
I sure wish I could read more reporting (about anything and everything) written in this tone.
You didn’t even scream “we’re all gonna die” or “oh my god, the children!”.
So tired of the media. And I don’t even have TV or read much of the mainstream stuff.
Not quite up to the standards of 1991 here in the Snoqualmie valley. That year my neighbor motored up to my mailbox in a borrowed boat and asked if he could ‘play through’ my place to feed his horses.
Actually, ML, I was hoping they’d get so much rain the whole thing would just slide off into the Pacific, thus drowning them all.
Wife had trouble getting home from work yesterday evening. Flooded roads everywhere.
There was a weird, huge, long blast of thunder yesterday. I went out and looked at clouds that had that strange, greenish tint. Made me think of tornados, although Oregon usually is free of such things. I’m not surprised there was one yesterday.
This is our first Pacific storm. Not sure if we’re north enough to be considered in the NorthWet, but its been raining, windy here for days too.
Definitely different than on the east coast. 2 days before the storms, county crews were out dumping piles of gravel and parking big earth movers near the known trouble spots. Sure enough, there were slides and washouts, and they had the stuff right there to fix it. The pro-activeness is pretty darn impressive, especially after living through NJ’s dismal response to Sandy.
And yes Claire, C and I commented on it the other day. The noon bell rang and high school kids come out to go to across the street to lunch. Wind is blowing sheets of rain sideways down the street, might as well have been a sunny day for all they seemed to care.
You are most definitely in the NorthWET, just waiting. You’re in my very favorite part of it, you lucky dog. So now that you’ve finally made it there through peril and travail, enjoy. From what I hear, you’re actually getting the most vigorous part of the most recent and upcoming storms.
I’m not sure where anyone might draw the “official” boundaries, but far as I’m concerned (and a lot of others, too, IMHO), everything from the southern borders of the state of Jefferson (and west of the Cascades, of course) is Northwet. (Hooray, Jefferson!)
OT (almost): The gods have spoken.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/12/12/global-climate-deal-announcement-in-paris-nears/?intcmp=hplnws
“The U.N. has been working for more than two decades to persuade governments to work together to reduce the man-made emissions that scientists say are warming the planet.”
But God could do it faster, if He thought it was necessary.
LOL, the local little radio station weatherman just came on and said “Your extended forecast is It’s gonna rain. That was your extended forecast on KFlood”
Brief and to the point, I love it here!
We had a little snowstorm yesterday… I think it lasted all of fifteen minutes and didn’t even get the deck damp. Bah humbug
But then, later, I started thinking of how easily the hammer could drop and snow me in for a week – as has happened. I think I’ll just keep my mouth shut and continue to make sure I’m prepared. Mother nature quite often gets the last laugh. 🙂
R.L. Wurdack — You definitely got me beat!