Aprés Snow, le Deluge

[akirlu]

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.)

Comments

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

We always get water in the basement when it rains like this. Fortunately, it almost never leaks in my room. It has once, that I can remember, which was the year we had a record number of days in a row of measurable rain. Same year there were sinkholes in I-5 down in Oregon, as I recall.

The streets were basically dry on my walk to work today.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

This is the first time we've had any water seepage in our basement at all, and this morning it had dried up again -- I think it must have been welling up against a pipe that runs into the concrete floor / foundation by the laundry sink. To give you an idea of the volume, at first Hal thought it was one of the cats having missed the litter box. Spike spills more water when she goes on one of her splashy binges in the downstairs water bowl.

Though speaking of I-5 between here and Oregon, apparently it's been closed because of flooding. And the television footage from Fall City and Snoqualmie Falls is apalling.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Just saw at MKK's joint that according to WSDOT there is no land route out of Western Washington today. Yikes! We're trapped! Can cannibalism be far behind?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, there's still the land route to the North, surely? Not helpful if trying to drive to the Bay Area/San Digeo Montoya, but I don't think we'll need to start eating each other, except recreationally, just yet. I hear they grow food in Canada. Or at least donuts.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Isn't "doughnuts" the proper (and Canadian) usage?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, proper usage would be "bheer". And screw the Canadians, who cares how they spell anyway, with their pretentious supererogatory u in 'colour'?

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, maple donuts.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Maple donuts with *bacon*. Oh, but that's Portland, not Canadia.

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and we have them and you don't! Nyeah!

OK, I don't know where that came from.

(stifles comment about the hazards of taking a slut to work...)

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

But I don't take the SLUT to work. It doesn't run far enough North at the North end, nor far enough South at the South end. Indeed, for my purposes, the SLUT is totally useless. Not something I would normally expect to say.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Yep, I've been seeing lots of video on the news.