We Get Some Rain

Every once in a while, western Washington lives up to its reputation for lots of rain in a grand style. The past few days, the weather decided to go whole hog to celebrate December.

On Saturday and Sunday it snowed. An unusual thing for us, although common enough in many other parts of the country. The snow did stick, but it stayed very wet. Occasionally it turned from snow to rain, just to keep us guessing. The roads in our area never really got bad.

Then it started to rain in earnest. If you haven't heard about the rain in Washington, you probably aren't watching any news. We set all sorts of records. Record flood levels, record rain fall in 24 hours, etc. Our office parking lot sprouted a couple of large ponds, one large enough to really get wet in if you tried. I took some pictures to document the occasion. (You might be able to guess that we were a little short on parking yesterday.)


Some employees couldn't make it to work because of closed roads. One employee raced home early afternoon yesterday when we heard that they were going to be closing I-5 (the main freeway) between us and his home. He made it safely home before it closed, but he won't be able to come back to work for several days. There was 8 feet of water over the highway in places! (We are talking about a major, 4 lane highway!)

We don't have any real problems at my home, other than general sogginess of the ground, etc. However, one does have to be very careful about branches and trees being down in various places. There were very high winds in some places.