<p>Watching those unbelievable rainfall totals in and around election coverage.</p>
<p>Hope everyone is warm, dry and safe.</p>
<p>It’s nothing new. It’s happened before and all was well.</p>
<p>It is supposed to rain here in the NW. My peas that I planted in late Sept are still growing and I need to harvest my lettuce. </p>
<p>The heaviest rains I’ve seen was in the East Coast in their infamous thundershowers.</p>
<p>I lived in the Northwest for a short time. </p>
<p>The rain I experienced was more of a constant drizzle, not like the staggering rainfall amounts in a short period of time they have shown on the national news.</p>
<p>On behalf of six million Washingtonians, thank you. What might not be obvious on the national teevee is that the areas that are flooding are the ones that always flood. There aren’t many homes or other buildings in most of these areas. Some folks are stranded in their homes on the other side of flooded valleys, but, again, this happens every year or two so they are used to it. The flooding was worse than usual, but once the water comes over the banks and covers the roads it doesn’t make much difference if it is a foot high or two feet high.</p>
<p>Folks in the Southeast routinely get more rain that this. We had 8" over a 3-day period – doesn’t a hurricane dump more than that in a day?</p>
<p>The good news is that my friend Rob had to “work from home” as the road to his house was flooded. The bad news is that we inexplicably re-elected one of the least influential members of the senate…</p>
<p>Its just payback for your summer.</p>
<p>Rick, please don’t confuse Cantwell with a true Nor’westerner. She’s just another transplant microsoft millionaire (in this case, a Real Networks millionaire) from somewhere else who knows little about Washington State but nevertheless thinks her money makes her a statesman, er -woman.</p>
<p>Rick… seriously, you’d prefer a drunk mudslinger who paid himself a fortune while laying off employees?</p>
<p>A plague on both their houses (especially when there were two other EXCELLENT candidates.)</p>
<p>Stay the course.</p>
<p>Actually depending on where you live it’s pretty dramatic, so dismissing someone else’s misfortunate because it’s not yours isn’t very nice. Yes, there are people whom are trying to figure out what’s next. Some areas received flooding that happens maybe once every 50 years or so. The big thing this time was how “fast” the waters rose this time. Usually there is more time when flood waters rise, this time rivers were cresting within a few hours.</p>
<p>It’s suppose to get colder over the next few days which will turn the rain up in the mountains into snow and slow down the flow to the rivers. </p>
<p>As far as politics go, If you really feel that the senator who went to battle with Ted Stevens over drilling and returning supertankers to the sound, trying to get the oil company execs to testify under oath, working to bring biodeisel to eastern wa farmers and the one senator who beat Enron and their illegal contracts as a do nothing, well it also explains why you feel the flooding is not a problem for some people up here. If it doesn’t effect you directly, it must not be a problem.</p>
<p>Safeco needed to be restructured just as Boeing had to be. That commercial was a big lie and why few business people run for office. Running a business sometimes means making unpopular decisions and yes it pays well when those succeed.</p>
<p>I’d be more impressed if she did something to stop commerce in her own state rather than picking on Alaska.</p>
<p>it is warm here in Seattle
personally we are lucky
I dont’ live on a hillside- however- I feel for those who have had to struggle with increasing incidents of flooding- exacerbated by the general warming trend, hillside erosion and rivers that no longer follow their beds.
I have read about some towns actually having to move, because they flood so much ( not in washington)
& I worry about the effect on the already precarious health of puget sound</p>
<p>I don’t want to hijack this thread because I appreciate the sentiment- but I have been thinking about weather & how it affects my views on the areas of the colleges that we may be considering.</p>
<p>Senator Patty Murray is the real workhorse. That’s why the Republicans can’t beat her or come close to beating her. Murray may be the true successor to the legacy of Maggie and Scoop.</p>
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<p>… and rereading my post I see how you got that impression. I apologize, it wasn’t my intent. Let me try again: the flooding was widespread and dramatic, and clearly caused a great deal of destruction in a few areas. My deepest sympathies to those who lost property and to the family of the one known victim of the storm.</p>
<p>I think it was accurate to say that most of the flooding was in areas where it is pretty much a regular thing. A few levee breaks flooded some smaller towns that did not always flood.</p>
<p>Im on the east side of the state and after our very dry summer, the rains came as a blessing. Today is unseasonably warm :D. Im waiting until next week or the week after before putting on my snow tires. :eek:</p>
<p>I felt sorry for the critters ankle deep in pastures around northwestern WA.
Scary to watch the watershed areas, especially in areas of new development where the land no longer absorbs as much water and the drainage is being tested anew. Also, the beachside bluffs are vulnerable to all this extra surface and ground water.</p>