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Originally Posted by Elphaba
You can find all the missing water in Washington and Oregon, where it all fell within two days last week. We're still digging out of the mess.  |
Yes, we've had all the water, but it's not the usual dismals. We've been getting pounded with several inches of rain at a time, which is an insane amount for even the PacNW. The ground can't hold it all, especially the clay soil of the Willamette Valley, and we've been having problems with flooding and slides here.
It's not as bad as it was two years ago, when we had a similar storm, with similar flooding issues. My town became an island during that storm. We got off easy this time, but I have a feeling that it's really just the beginning of something far worse.
What will really suck is if another big storm comes through while everything is still soggy. The wind will uproot the trees and the additional rains will cause flooding. Heck, even some mild weather today (mild by comparison to last week, which closed I-5) caused a mud slide that closed one of the main highways between Portland and the Oregon coast. Right now it's dry and cold, but all that's doing is keeping the water in the ground, frozen. When it warms up and starts raining again, that water will still be there, and the new water will have nowhere to go. We will likely lose power if a bad windstorm comes through because of the trees being in soggy ground. I'm not looking forward to the coming weeks, weather-wise. It does not look good.
I wish I could send some to the Southeast, really I do.