The Weather in Seattle

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Pat Anderson

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OK, we give! Uncle! Floods, snowstorms and now a record or near record windstorm. And the Seahawks are in total disarray too! A million people without power, including us, thank heavens for that Costco $400 Generac 5 kw generator!
 
Gee Pat, I'm sorry you live in such a hostile environment. Maybe there is something to all of Mr. Gore's weather predictions! Here on the slope (several hundred miles ABOVE the arctic circle) it is 20 degrees at 5:45 this morning, and no wind. Yea, I know there's no day light either but what the heck.
By the way, I was saddened to here about your recent loss. We tell our selves, this is natural and a normal thing but when we have to face those realities it's not as easy as logic makes it sound.
Mike on Huda Thunkit :smiled
 
We are not in much better shape here in portland, PGE has 180,000 customers without power including my house. The work place has power so at least I can surf.

I live out in the sticks so doubt that PGE will have the house back on line for a couple of days and need to get my generator going this afternoon for the frig and freezer. Glad I have a wood stove for heat.

Lot of downed trees and flooded roads, no street lights and most the the traffic signals are off line. Little erie driving in to work.

stevej
 
Sheesh, what did you people do to tick off Mother Nature so much? Seems like it's been relentless the past couple months. Sending our best wishes for some decent weather for y'all.

We left the Tropical Tip of Texas to go to the chilly dessert (Phoenix), and are now on Maui. The 4 hour time difference has made for a very early morning. :wink: I had a message from B-C Ken on my phone, and hope we can get together for a C-Brats Cheeseburger in Paradise Gathering... and discuss the weather back home.

Best wishes,
Jim & Joan B.
 
Its already passed up here in Vancouver. We have about 500,000 or so without power. A small amount of flodding and some downed trees, but the sun has broken through and the wind has died. I have all my christmas shopping done so life ain't too bad. We probably didn't get hit quite as hard as Seatle this time. Victoria took a fair good hit though. The radio was reports gusts up to 150km. (about 90mi)
Hope those without power at home get it back soon.
Ron
 
It wasn't much for us. The top wind speed on the roof of the house was 53 mph. I think it was a bit stronger up higher off ground, though. Lots of trees toppled, and half of Warrenton, parts of Astoria, and surrounding rural areas still in the dark. Our house lights went out at 3:00 pm Thursday and came back on at 3:00 this morning. Had a couple short bumps since. The boat in its slip rode it out like a champ. No problems at all.

The NOAA buoys recorded swells of 30+ feet and 20' wind waves at the CR mouth. No flooding to speak of close to the river, though. The CR is five miles wide down here, and it holds a whole bunch of water.

I had to work today, but the kids got to skip school. No fair.
 
Oh, and while I feel for the folks who are harmed by the weather, I am glad that there was some power outage in the Seattle area. It got me a nice phone call from Brock. Well, a voice message anyway - the cell phone signals are haywire this evening.
 
Nice to talk to you, Tyboo. When Jamie called I thought she was another misdial. She ain't no wrong number, that's for sure. She and her sister can call me any time.

Glad everyone's safe. It was a heck of a ride up here. I was out till 1 a.m. walking all around last night, taking a thumpin' and listening to my ICOM IC-M32 handheld VHF. :phone
 
Thanks, Da Nerd, for posting the cruise cancellation notice over there. Too bad we can't see this gig through. But stuff happened up here. A cedar tree fell in our yard and I most likely have a day of cutting all carved out.
:rose2
 
Power went out here Thursday just before 7 PM (Jefferson loses power when there's NO storm for no apparent reason, so we were pretty sure we'd be in the dark). Woke up Friday brrrrrrrr morning and went to work hoping they'd have power...Steve's job always has power (costs too much for them to shut down) but there was nothing but cold and darkness at my job (it's usually kinda dark there at 5:30AM, but the light switches and alarm system said nothing when I unlocked the door and tried the lights) -- so I took my flashlight and went out to the maintenance shop to see if I could help out getting generators going and lights on in the shop...loaded some freight in the courier's rig and by then we had some rigged up lighting, so I did some filing....then came home to the BOAT! had a cup of coffee, but didn't leave the stove on any longer than necessary (checked the vent right above the rail and shut it off as soon as the stove was cooled off) -- called Steve and said "We're going to town and get a motel tonight!" Power's back on this morning -- YIPPPPEEEEE!

Sure wish the rivers could get a break and lose the debris and mud so we could get out there and go fishing!
 
We lost power on S. Whidbey about 0815 Thursday Night. That was shortly followed by a huge wind gust which took out a Douglas fir and deposited it against the house. Two feet right and it would have taken out the master bathroon. As it was it put a 3 inch branch through the roof just for fun.
And that was before the storm got here !!
The boat was 200 ft away from this darned tree and it still got whacked with a branch. No damage.
Still no power. have light and heat thanks to Honda and propane.

Got lots of firewood !!!

Now all it needs is James to do another of his posts from TX about balmy sunsets..........

Merv
 
Our power just came back on a few minutes ago - has been quite a ride, but all okay. Firewood I've got - two trailer loads of branches already hauled away and a couple more to go. Some damage to one car, but it's just a Honda.

Y'all have fun!!!

Dusty
 
Grumpy":30a886li said:
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Now all it needs is James to do another of his posts from TX about balmy sunsets..........

Merv
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We're not in Texas right now, Merv. We just finished attending the first Maui/Cheeseburger in Paradise C-Brat gathering, the crew of Blue~C and Wild Blue present. It was a real pleasure to meet Ken, Marge, and Tyler and "talk story" over burgers. We both lamented over not having our boats here and discussed how much kidneys are going for (to be able to afford to get our boats here :wink ).

From the old JB song: the weather is here, wish you were beautiful.

Best wishes and Aloha,
Jim B.
 
James,

Thankyou,
The thought of y'all suffering in Hawaii sustained me as I broke the ice on the rainwater barrel to get water for a "royal flush". (Amazing what critters live in there !!)
The propane crab boiler does a great job of sterilizing large quantities of rainwater for dishwashing (and cooks all the critters !)
Now I will join the merry festive throng at the gas station for the third re-fill of my 3 x 5 gall containers so I can keep the generator going. I'm keeping the boat tanks as reserve.

Hope Home Depot has power so I can get bits to patch roof while I wait for one of the (soon to be) millionaire contractors to come and fix it properly.

Happy Holidays,

Merv
 
It seems the terrible weather that ravished the NW is now crossing the Rockies toward us in the high country -- looks like we'll have four or five days of snow for the ski areas and probably some down here in the foothills.

Sure sorry for the hard times for many of you folks in WA-OR --
 
El and Bill":1pbuss9w said:
Sure sorry for the hard times for many of you folks in WA-OR --
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Same here. I have a quadriplegic friend living in Mukilteo who lost power for over 24 hours and still hasn't got land line phone service back. Fortunately he isn't ventilator dependent so other than being a bit chilly, a little hungry and a whole lot bored, he came through in fine shape considering.

Don
 
Hey maybe we need to start our Bahama's cruise early...so you'all kin get out of the weather...just close er all up...hook up da boat n come have Christmas with us....
Sue and I are at the cabin in Northern California...where it snowed about 1/2" last night but it's already 50 degrees out n the snow is melting fast....
The Tug is finished and safely stored in the boat house for the winter...
It's not quite Hawaii but I kin wear the shirt anyhow...

Joel n Sue
SEA3PO
 
Hope all you folks up in the PNW are recovering from the weather onslaught. I know you endured a lot of difficult hardships.

Here in Northern California the morning dawned clear and cold, and we're going to have a beautiful day, as Joel mentioned.

Joel- Congradulations on completing the restoration of Kea! I'm sure it was a lot of work, but it's behind you now! You might describe how you fixed the rudder problem on the "Kea Wrecked!" thread.

Joe.
 
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