The Weather in Seattle

The rudder was easy.....I diden't do it... I could not find a good used one...so I may have to build a new one...out of stainless...I have months to watch EBAY for a used one/...... the problem is that my rudder had a 1 1/8" thick shaft and everything I find that would work well has a 1 1/2" thick shaft.... I guess I could rig up some sort of homemade lathe and grind the shaft down some, but hopefully between now and summer somthing will turn up....

Joel
SEA3PO
 
I launched on Lake Washington on Saturday, had it pretty much to myself. No heat at home, so what the heck. No waves, very calm...sky was very polluted due to everyone having fireplaces cranking.
 
So where are y0u guys ...the cabin is warn, and the power is on...lots of space for you all ..... come on down!!! \


Joel
SEA3PO
 
I'm still enjoying the first Maui C-Brat gathering, enjoyed a nice meal the other day with Jim & Joan.....I got mugged today...by a wave...the kid and I where trying to body surf, got sand packed into every orifice. I sure hope the house is still standing and the pipes haven't frozen when we get back home.
 
So, David, you're sayin' this would be a really good time to fly up there to putt around on a new boat?

Acutaly, I am hoping that all this nightmare weather you've been having will exhaust the supply by this Thursday, when it will turn sunny and calm and warm, and nice and.....

John
 
Actually it was all a bit like backwoods camping except you don't have the option to move camp!

While we complain there were (and still are) others far less fortunate. It was truly amazing to see how many people with special needs were having to make do with far less than those of us with generator provided heat and light.
Did anyone else feel weird going out and driving around and finding nothing unusual. You kind of expect there to be CNN "talking heads" on each street corner each blocking the view of the disaster they are describing. But no, just a few trees down here and there, otherwise everything was normal until the first intersection with no lights !!

And of course, it has been great boating weather for a couple of days. Maybe we should have just moved down to the marina for a couple of days. (maybe not with two large German Shepherds)

Merv
 
John, the waters are flat and calm. I am going to try and get out for at least an overnight between Chrismas and NY. I have an 8 hour USCGAux patrol scheduled for the 29th. I will be on a Bayliner 34, "Tranquility Base".
 
Thanks, David. Will you be patrolling around Guemes Is.? ...or Anacortes? I will be having to pull the boat out at Edmonds the night of the 29th or the morning of the 30th, so prob won't be that far north at that time. Maybe I'll have full confidence by then!!! LOL

John
 
Grumpy":2b7ichs2 said:
Actually it was all a bit like backwoods camping except you don't have the option to move camp!

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And of course, it has been great boating weather for a couple of days. Maybe we should have just moved down to the marina for a couple of days. (maybe not with two large German Shepherds)

Merv
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Merv, have you not heard of the term "three dog night"? :wink:

It hasn't been easy for the C-Brats here on the Valley Isle, either. Why just this morning, there was only 3 bites of ice cream left in the freezer. 8) And yesterday, just before 6:00 pm local, I had to squint...

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And on Kaanapali Beach yesterday, there were only two girls in thongs. (No photo available.)

Hoping for a very rapid improvement in conditions for y'all.

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
John,

Depending upon weather and other obligations, it is quite possible that we will be "out and about in a boat" during the holidays. Will you have any means other than 68 of communicating your wherabouts ?

Merv & Kathy on Kingfisher
 
Well, the "weather in Seattle" (actually Fall City, Snoqualmie, etc.) is turning out to be not quite so fun for us...just had a briefing at the City from the top Puget Sound Energy government liason folks, they say Snoqualmie Valley had the worst damage to infrastructure, and may be without power for up to another week. All three 115KV mains to Snoqualmie Valley suffered massive damage from falling trees. The generator powering lights, fridge and other stuff in the house needs gas, which is hard to come by here. There is one station open, and the line is around the block. The circuit board on the natural gas forced air furnace went out, and we have been relying on the Russian fireplace. I spent the weekend bucking and splitting deadfalls in the back yard, will run out of firewood probably this evening, tomorrow morning at the latest. Temperatures are dropping below freezing every afternoon and night, so it is getting to be less and less fun camping out...As a last resort we will take to Daydream in the driveway, power with the little Honda 2000 generator, heat with the little electric heater, cook on the Wallas...
 
I was surprised to find that all the motels were booked this weekend. Sue was wondering what the draw was. Told her the draw was no power and people needed a warm bed and a shower. This morning we were experiencing freezing fog in the salem area. Spring had better get here pretty quick.
 
OK, update Wednesday afternoon - we got water back yesterday when the Water District decided the little booster pump actually could be powered by a generator (about four days late, by us...), the power came back on at our house about half an hour ago or so...we'll get the furnace guy here tomorrow, things should be pretty much back to normal, whatever that is, pretty durn soon now...tonight it is still twigs and branches in the Russian fireplace, early to bed (nothing new about that however) and snuggle down under the down comforter one more night!
 
pat sent you email. If its a gas furnace and you are waiting for them to come "relite" it. dont wait. I was once working in this racket. Worked for amergas in northen cal. Most gas heater systems have auto shut offs when the power goes off. Great idea for saftey and money generation. Now the furnace guy gets to come to your place and charge you $xxx to flip a switch on the unit, 9 out of 10 hid by a panal, count to 10 and switch it back on. Some guys will even hang out for a while and hit the unit with there hand so you thing they are doing something. I have even seen other guys break out a volt meter to "test" the unit before tripping the reset button. Low effort, high pay. I hate attics, where a lot of the units are, so I would teach folks to do it thems selves. boss chewed my ass for it when some one sent a thank you note and cookies to the office for saving them money next time.
 
I am glad most of you are getting back to normal. I am still without power.

I sure am glad we are self-sufficient. Our water system is from a hillside spring and is gravity fed to the house. We heat with wood and I have an antique generator that keeps putting along. We just have to be selective on what appliances we use and at what time. Because of the voltage fluctuation when the water heater kicks on, I do not use the computers at home when generating our own power.

Terri actually likes it when we lose power. She is hoping it does not come back on until after Christmas. I would prefer it come back on because it will be easier to keep up with the people on this site. As it is, I only go on line at work, which isn’t too bad today. I am updating the workstations and accounting program for our management office. It is a long process and I have lots of time waiting so I can catch up a bit.

After the storm, I had to cut my way out of the driveway Friday. The road going south was blocked by down power lines and down trees. The county did not attempt to open the road until Tuesday. They just put road-closed signs up. Going out to the north, I had a few trees to top on the county road to get to work and by Saturday, the Chehalis River had flooded so the county closed that road also. There is a 400 ft stretch that regularly floods and the county puts up road closed signs on it when there is more than 6” of water on the roadway because of the strong currents. Us locals go around the signs until there is more than 18” of water across the roadway. I did have some massive fir trees come down. Will probably sell them to Weyerhaeuser this spring. They are worth too much money to cut into firewood.
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Power came back on this evening. A crew up from California repaired the lines. Joe must have sent them up when he heard of my predicament. Thanks Joe.

I have been doing my best to catch up with the post on this site since then.
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My sister lives in Bellevue and is still without power! Ironically, we live in the country and have a generator set up with a Gentran which generates enough for approximately 70% of our needs (including the water well), and we were out of power about 30 hours. I'm certain that more than a few urban dwellers in Washington will begin to formulate plans to be more self sufficient.
 
No major problems here in Everett, but we have a couple of trees on our cabin in the San Juans. I added a few pics in our album. (sorry, can't remember how to attach to the message!) We will see the mess first hand NEXT weekend. I'll be brinning my chainsaw!
 
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