Aprés Snow, le Deluge

Well, I'll be getting in late to work today, if at all. You may have heard there's some flooding in Western Washington. Yeah, well, apparently there's enough of it between here and Tacoma that they have canceled my usual train. Entirely. Nothing running today. This is what I get for not finding time to get my car in to the mechanic this week -- on Monday it had a relapse of the starter problems it developed during the snow-in, so I have no guarantee that it will start. Then again, it might not matter much -- many of my usual routes to drive are showing black with stopped traffic on the WSDOT traffic maps -- there's been a mudslide on Interurban and it's messing up a large area around it.

Meanwhile, there's actually a traffic tailback on our street. This never happens. We live on a minor residential side street that lies between two arterials, but usually anyone cutting between the two takes Jason, downhill of us, because it's controlled by a light. At a guess, the northern arterial is closed due to flooding from the creek, and people are diving south wherever they can. Yesterday when I walked to the train, Mill Creek was running right up its banks to the bottom of the foot bridge I cross to get to Kent Station. With another night of steady rain, it may easily have flooded out onto James down at the bottom of the hill.

I guess I'll lumber down to the basement and see if the small trickle of water leakage has gotten worse. Yes, a 60-years-dry basement is leaking water. I guess it's been that kind of rain. (So far it's been no big deal -- it was a little trickle and it runs straight to and down the floor drain.)