Lots of pockets of Seattle without power right now. I lost power at my kitchen yesterday morning about a half an hour after I opened- had to shut down for the day. My house, not to far away, though, was basically untouched all day- no crazy rain or wind. Wacky.
KevinC
5682
Wind has really kicked up here in UT ahead of the rain, it should start to hit this afternoon. They’re forecasting a foot of desperately needed snow in the mountains, I hope that holds true. We really need it.
We’re hovering near the wettest October on record here. That’s not saying a whole lot given the climate, but I’ll take any good news I can get on the precipitation front.
Been fortunate out here so far. I was worried about wind this weekend, but haven’t had that much so far. I’ll feel better after the new generator is actually working (they didn’t realize we needed a regulator on the gas line)
I have to take back what I said earlier about not seeing much in South Seattle. Turns out the wind knocked over more than a dozen utility lines just across the South Park Bridge from me on E Marginal Way, closing that bridge and main arterial into my neighborhood. Something about those poles, though, a similar thing happened a couple years back- wonder what’s up with them.
I didn’t know you were here in Portland. I’m in Overlook (in the north). Whereabouts are you?
nKoan
5686
SW Portland, almost equally close to Portland proper, Beaverton and Tigard.
Ah, my folks’ house in the Burlingame area might be more or less near you. Lots of hills and substantially more tall trees than where I live.
nKoan
5688
Yeah cool. I’m a little west of Burlingame in Garden Home
I laughed out loud. Thank you.
orald
5690
We got nearly 4” of rain early last Sunday morning and woke up to 3” of water in our finished basement. I figured out why the sump pump wasn’t working and got it to start and it pumped out the water fairly quickly.
So we tore out the carpeting and the pad and threw out some of the furniture. The insurance claims adjuster came and submitted a claim of $5000 which exceeds our losses. He said it was because we had an endorsement in our hazard insurance policy that l ooks like this, “water back-up and sump discharge or overflow.” We did not always have that in our policy and our agent added it when we refinanced the house last year.
So those of you who own a home with a basement check your insurance policy and make sure you have that endorsement. Without it we would have not been able to submit a claim. The adjuster said there were a lot of people that had flooding that did not have that endorsement.
And if you have an electric sun pump with a float switch make sure you clean the contacts on the plug occasionally and test the float switch before a big storm.
Sorry to hear about the flood, but man, that insurance clause sounds like it really saved you some trouble!
First snowfall here in north/eastern PA. #toosoon
Petey
5693
Drove up North to Samish Island (North of Seattle) a few days back. A few of the roads felt like we were driving on that highway to get to the Florida Keys. Poor farmers. So much flooding that I have never seen up here. This November has been just the wettest I can remember.
After the hottest summer ever.
Our dogs have had 2 or 3 days outside running around this month. That’s how I can tell if it’s bad or not. This month, least exercise for them since we’ve lived here.
That’s crazy. Funny thing is, we missed one of the big storms when we were out of town (two weeks ago, I guess) and it doesn’t seem like we have had all that much rain dive we got back. But we are West, not north.
We got a dusting from that one. A little more in the air today, though.
I love Samish Island. A dear friend grew up there. There’s not much to do on it, but I just love the remoteness of it. Sit on the rocky beach and contemplate life.
Petey
5697
It’s a pretty interesting little community for sure. Down one of the streets a girl was riding a Clydesdale…that was random.
We found the Samish park and walked down the steep stairs to the beach and the water was so close to the bottom of the stairs, we couldn’t walk more than 5 feet either way, guess it was super high tide.
Not sure people have been tracking this due to the time, season and location, but a tornado has been ravaging the Midwest/TN Valley area for going on three hours and 200+ miles, now. Expect some devastating pictures in the morning news.
And before someone decries “random Twitter dudes,” those are both professional meteorologists
The destruction and loss of life from tornadoes last night could be horrific – like Joplin 2011 levels of bad.
I mean, this video of Mayfield, Kentucky. Or what used to be Mayfield, I guess…
An Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Edwardsville, IL (just across the river from St. Louis) collapsed from the storms trapping dozens inside. There were reports of injuries, but no deaths there at least so far.
In Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear’s statement to the press today, he’s said that there may be “well north” of 50 deaths in his commonwealth alone.
