"Miller, Jeffrey" wrote:
>
> 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.
Dang, sounds like a situation comparable to the one we had in October
1998, at least in terms of deviance from the norm as far as rainfall
goes. (We got only 12" in 24 hours at our house, I think, but there
were places that got around 36" in 24 hours, IIRC, down by Onion Creek;
normally, you wouldn't expect more than, say, 5" in 24 hours at any one
spot. They had to evacuate a couple of trailer parks due to flooding,
and a section of a major road needed rebuilding afterwards.)
> ...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-
Ugh. Not fun on the yahoo drivers, I'm sure. That's one thing I hate
about it when we get a hard rain, is people being idiots. And for some
reason, I've ended up being the one driving in a couple of remarkable
rainstorms, but that was just as well considering that in both
instances, the other licensed driver in the car couldn't see the lane
markers when that was *all* they were trying to do, while I could see
the lane markers *and* be aware of just how far ahead of me the next car
was and how fast it was going *and* be able to control the car.
Or are you talking more the idiots who don't understand that if there's
a barrier up, someone had a darn good reason for putting it up and they
shouldn't try to drive around it and possibly get themselves killed, or
at least kill the car?
(And you just *had* to mention the New England foliage, didn't you? :(
Haven't been there to see it in 5 years now; that's what I miss most
about New England. I don't miss the snow in the *least*, though.)
Julia
hoping the magnolia trees in the front survive another year, they
haven't been the same since the ice storm in February
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