wind, snow, rain -- and now flood
Jan. 8th, 2009 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraThese pictures are of a normally completely dry creek bed/drainage channel that runs through my condo complex. In the four years I have lived in this condo, I have never seen more than a couple of inches of water in it before. These pictures were taken this morning.
That gray pile on the grass to the left of the water is what remains of a pile of snow pushed up by the plow during the multiple Christmas snowfalls. The building to the left is mine, but I'm considerably up the hill, and completely dry, inside at least.
I estimate the water to be about 20 feet across, and perhaps six feet deep.
This is the direction the water's coming from. There was never more than a couple of inches of water on the driveway, and the water never overtopped it. It just looks like it did from the angle, but it probably never got closer than a foot to the top of the road.
We've had about five inches of rain in the last 24 hours, on completely saturated ground. It has, thank goodness, finally stopped raining, at least for now.
Oh, and the Puget Sound area is completely cut off to the east and south -- all the passes (mudslides as well as avalanches) plus I-5 (the latter from 10 feet of water over the freeway) are closed, and will be for several days. Not to mention places being evacuated that I'd never heard of, in fifteen years, being evacuated before.
Enough already!!!
That gray pile on the grass to the left of the water is what remains of a pile of snow pushed up by the plow during the multiple Christmas snowfalls. The building to the left is mine, but I'm considerably up the hill, and completely dry, inside at least.
I estimate the water to be about 20 feet across, and perhaps six feet deep.
This is the direction the water's coming from. There was never more than a couple of inches of water on the driveway, and the water never overtopped it. It just looks like it did from the angle, but it probably never got closer than a foot to the top of the road.
We've had about five inches of rain in the last 24 hours, on completely saturated ground. It has, thank goodness, finally stopped raining, at least for now.
Oh, and the Puget Sound area is completely cut off to the east and south -- all the passes (mudslides as well as avalanches) plus I-5 (the latter from 10 feet of water over the freeway) are closed, and will be for several days. Not to mention places being evacuated that I'd never heard of, in fifteen years, being evacuated before.
Enough already!!!
