Yeah, right! http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/144779_weather21.html
I doubt its gotten much national coverage, but we just had a doozy of a rainstorm the past 3 days. Now, see, Seattle is all about rain, right? So it figures that we'd be able to deal with a cloudburst or two, right? Well... Seattle's rain is sort of like living in the vegetable section of the supermarket, right under an automatic mister that's turned on for 6 months of the year. The average annual rainfall is only 36 inches -- my hometown in Vermont gets more annual rain AND has more overcast days. Seattle just has them all at once. So anyway, in the past 3 days, Seattle proper has gotten in excess of 8 inches of rain, 5.02 of which fell in a 24 hour period, from 2am yesterday. This utterly shattered the previous 24-hour record, set back in the 40's, of 3.41". So much rain has fallen that the city resivoirs, at a 40-year low and with water restrictions not being announced only because we're about to hit monsoon season here, are now at 85% capacity and rising. ...and that total is just at the airport. Rainfall totals on the OP and in the Cascades are as much as double that, and with no snowpack in the mountains to absorb it. Highways and bridges are washed out all over, up in BC the road to Whistler is out. Sandbags are a hot commodity right now, as if they had a DK logo on 'em. Listening to the list of local rivers at or above flood stage is like listening to a run-down of every NA tribe that ever lived here. And don't EVEN get me started on the yahoo's in this city who can't figure out how to drive in these conditions. Who says Seattle knows how to deal with rain? ^_^ -wet, soaked, missing the foliage of New England- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
