Flooding

[trystinn]

It would like take a disaster of tsunami-like proportions for us to be in danger of flooding. We're up among the highest elevations on the Island and there's no rivers of sufficient size anywhere nearby. However, getting to the Island has been complicated by the heavy rainfall as Route 20 (West from I-5 to Anacortes) is now flooding. Expectation has it that I-5 will flood along the North, as well.

So anyone heading North (Alfrecht, this may or may not impact you) to the Island - here's your heads up.

Comments

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the update. I was worried :(

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Weather - it just keeps coming. Ugh. They've been interrupting tv with emergency notification reports for days now.

My main concern is the wind. 35-40 mph gusts, we had to go out and re-attach the tarps on the new Bunhalla to last them even tighter.

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that.

I was planning on taking the ferry, in any case, as it does work out a bit more conveniently, and I don't think there's anything on that part of the journey (from here to downtown Everett and then to Mukilteo) that could go wrong. Puget Sound certainly isn't going to rise high enough to make the ferry unusable!

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Likely not a rise issue, but it the swells are too high they could conceivably cancel a crossing as they continually must do on the Keystone/Port Townsend run.

Stormin' Norman will likely bang the gate bringing his boat in, so it should be a good ride. *WEG*

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

They rarely, if ever, stop a run on the Mukilteo ferry--unlike Keystone, that part of the Sound is more inland and fairly protected, compared to Keystone, where it's a pretty much straight shot out to the Straits and to the Pacific...

There have been a few "low tide" cancellations, and even strandings, of the Mukilteo ferry in the past, though. But that hasn't happened for a very long time indeed!

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Good luck riding it out! Hope it's mostly just boring.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

That's my hope, too. We'll likely lose power and ISP for awhile, sadly.

[synapsepi.livejournal.com]

oh man. first the snow and now this? :(

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

It's quite crazy at present. The wind is gusting to 40mph, which depending on the folks in charge can actually close Deception Pass Bridge and cancel ferry crossings.

We've been cut off from the Mainland before due to bad weather, we're prepared if it happens again.

[synapsepi.livejournal.com]

the wind is pretty nutty at the moment. It seems that the insulating in military housing, even though this is the newer housing(i doubt that ever really means a whole lot) isn't very good. Whenever there is wind the house becomes much cooler. It was bad enough when we lost heat last time and it's something i worry about with the little one. But if they had insulated the damn place right maybe there wouldn't be so much strain on the heating system and just maybe the system wouldn't have failed. Though we really didn't have it on THAT high.

I lived out in Western Mass for a while and my dad is from Colorado where I have also lived. So weather isn't a huge deal. But having grown up in the SF bay area it did take some getting used to.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

My folks live in the Berkshires, in Pittsfield and I went to MCLA - how ironic, eh?

Hopefully you'll do okay out there, housing rarely loses power. Do you have a fireplace??