Rats... Seattle won this round... Portland still has time to catch up... We can't have Seattle folks whining about how they have worse wet weather than us (and being right about it). We prefer to be the whiners (whinee?winner?whinna?). Nerd From Hell (wondering when he'll get the chance to whine about the rain.)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Miller, Jeffrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:10 AM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: But its Seattle, you're used to it.. > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
