Wondering how the Storm of the Week was for other Pacific NW and British Columbian Chiffers. High gusts here - the nearby Hood Canal Bridge recorded one around 74mph. Only a few trees and lots of branches down in the neighborhood.
Alas - the power stayed on thus I have no excuses today. Was looking forward to curling up with a Christopher Moore novel next to the woodstove. Instead, its off to the flute mines for me. Never keep a lathe waiting. Or in today’s case the tuning bench. I am soooooo ready for my holiday vacation.
I’m in an area right now where I can watch live news reports from Portland, Spokane, Seattle, and Boise. The mt. highway above me, between here and the Wallowas, is closed from falling trees. My cousin up in Bellingham just got his power restored from the last storm, now this. I wonder how Denny survived this one. He just got his power back on too.
Portland had good coverage last night. On Oregon’s tripcheck, every highway beteween the coast and the !-5 corridor is/was closed from falling trees. [u]Check it out[/u]. The red X means closure. Portland’s [u]KGW[/u] has good coverage too. Winds gusts at Lincoln City were 114mph. BTW, this is suppose to be the storm of the decade. Several deaths reported near Seattle. Spokane has had the best coverage today. Spokane’s [u]KREM[/u] has the best pic of the day.
A huge fir tree uprooted and
lifted the front end of a pickup
about 10 ft. in the air.
The highest wind gust was on Mission Ridge, above Wenatchee–135mph.
from a local TV station:
This storm will go down in the top echelon of windstorms in the region’s history, as winds gusted to nearly 70 mph in the greater Puget Sound area, making this storm even stronger than the infamous Inauguration Day Storm of Jan. 20, 1993.
[u]Note Found[/u]
COOPER SPUR, Ore. (AP) – Three missing climbers left a note at the Hood River Ranger Station, searchers announced at a press conference Friday. Capt. Chris Bernard of the 304th Rescue Squadron showed a note scribbled on pink paper on which the three climbers detailed their planned route, and even listed supplies they were carrying with them, including: “food, fuel, ropes, shovel” and bivvy sack.
“They did all the right things, they took all the right gear,” said Capt. Bernard. Bernard said rescuers were especially encouraged that the climbers had a shovel and a bivvy sack, because these were the items critical to building shelter and surviving on the mountain.
Absolutely, Peter. Two weeks ago we had a major blow which ripped the top off my brand new chimney cowl - twisted metal everywhere. It wrecked the new guttering at the front of my house and blew slates off the roof of my outbuilding. They recorded peak gusts of 90mph in the Scillies, but the met office said that there were almost certainly gusts exceeding 100mph in Cornwall (we just don’t have that many recording stations). We get ones nearly as bad as that every winter, and ones just as bad as that every two or three winters. “Nearly 70mph gusts” is commonplace in Cornwall. Talking about big winds in Cornwall is the UK equivalent of Texans talking about how big everthang is over there.
We came through it okay. Still have all our trees (but they are mostly deciduous so they didn’t have the leaves or needles to catch the wind).
One of the guys at work was late because his power was out and trees were down on his property - including across a boat that he was going to fix up and his garage.
That is a great picture of the truck from the KREM website!
Since 12 november it has rained every day, 3 inches on some days. We had gales of force 10 almost every second day and two storms one of which registered gusts of over 150 km/h
You guys call that windy??? Pfft, gimme a break, that’ nothing, where I lived until recently (Florida) we got winds that did this sort of damage:
Our plains states occupants deal with that sort of damage, as well.
I friend of mine from Florida relocated to Seattle last year, he said they’re a bunch of sissys about the weather there, particularly these last couple of storms
To be fair, I think perhaps this stuff has more to do with what you’re used to. In a place like Vancouver BC, where they’re not used to seeing snow, and have little or no snow removal equipment, a mere couple of inches of snow is enough to shut them down.
Similarly, if you are used to gale force winds, your area probably does not have a lot of trees, but for those areas that are not used to it and are heavily wooded, it doesn’t take much wind to cause a lot of damage.
I personally would choose the west coast over anything inland or east coast any day, but that’s just me.
We’re in Tacoma and didn’t have any damage. The storm last February put a tree on our house, so we had the arborist come out and evaluate the rest of our trees–seven of them had to come down, and the others were thinned to make them wind-safe. If we hadn’t had the trees removed, I think some of them would have fallen. Or maybe not. The wind didn’t seem too loud, so maybe we’re just in a good spot.
-My power in Seattle’s Admiral district flickered but stayed on, a rarity I learned as I drove transit around town before dawn picking up cold, unfed, uncaffeinated people.
-On the plus side, people were pretty mellow, local traffic was generally light and a sunray through low clouds at sunset transfigured downtown across the bay into a brilliant, golden city worthy of Mark Helprin’s “Winter’s Tale”, never so pretty.
This is just to exciting.
