Reporting for duty!The rain, it is still falling. The Seattle Times has some rather harrowing pictures of people being rescued by little tin boats and horses being taken to the fairgrounds when their stables are evacuated. It's pretty grim stuff especially since all of the same areas were hit with a terrible flood only a year ago. There were a few happy stories of people who had just about finished flood prevention alterations to their homes (raising them three feet off the ground in some cases) but for the most part people are still staring up at the lip of the hole they got into after the Dec 2007 flood.
an amateur job, but effectiveOur house isn't in real danger, but I decided to be even safer than I was yesterday and add a few more feet onto the ditch. Now if nothing else the flow has been pointed at a few different directions and will soak in evenly. The seasonal creek next to our house is raging along. Part of me wishes it was warm enough to open the windows at night and listen because the rushing water does make such a relaxing sound.
The traffic cameras in Duvall are off the charts. I've seen flooding from the cameras in years past, but the river is almost inside the traffic circle. I had a difficult time imagining it could get so high. People joke about how Duvall is an island now, and they are not far off. I've read about people that work but don't live there being ferried across from the Woodinville side in boats.
from early this morning
a different angle of the same intersection at 2.39pm todayHopefully the worst is almost over and the rivers will crest and recede by Friday. If not, we will have to split the cost of a canoe with some of our friends who are stranded on the island. Or else start sending messages in bottles.
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Eggs laid in the coop today: 4
Eggs laid in the coop Wednesday: 4
Eggs laid this year: 31
Eggs laid in the coop today: 4
Eggs laid in the coop Wednesday: 4
Eggs laid this year: 31
2 comments:
Hope the rain goes away and comes back another day...way in the future!
I'm glad you're not flooded out. Up here we're well out of the water: I may be less than a quarter of a mile from the Snohomish river, but it would have to flood the whole river valley about 60 feet or so deep before I'd start worrying. And if there was that much water, I'd have other things to worry about...
I think the cats preferred the snow, though: it was easier to watch the Kitty TV that way (the bird feeders.)
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