This not uncommon:
SEATTLE -- A strong, wet, warm storm dropping heavy rain in the Olympics and Cascades will cause flooding on Western Washington rivers -- while high winds are expected overnight across the interior lowlands of the region, forecasters said.
A flood watch is in effect for most areas of Western Washington through Wednesday night, the National Weather Service said. The flood watch is for rivers in Grays Harbor, Clallam, Jefferson, Skagit, Whatcom, King, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Snohomish and Thurston counties.
KIRO 7 Chief Meteorologist Rebecca Stevenson said the bulk of the second storm will happen in the overnight hours of Tuesday to Wednesday. The heaviest rainfall will be to the north near the Cascades and on the Olympic coast through early Wednesday and the heavy rain will shift southward through the afternoon focusing on the south Cascades by late day.
Up to half-an-inch of rain is expected in the Central Sound by 7 a.m. Wednesday, up to two inches is expected in the north interior and southwest interior of Washington -- the highest amount of rain is forecast to fall in the Olympics and Cascades with up ten inches.
A wind advisory is in effect from 10 p.m. Tuesday to 10 a.m. Wednesday. Forecasters said the strongest winds will hit the North Sound and northern interior at 20 to 30 mph, with gusts to 45 mph Tuesday night before increasing across all of western Washington through the early morning. Winds this strong can snap branches, topple small trees and cause local power outages, the weather service said. The rain should taper off from north to south beginning late Wednesday night. High pressure will build over the area Thursday and Friday with dry weather making a comeback.
Emergency management officials are looking at where flooding is likely to hit the hardest in Lewis County.
Lewis County is preparing for a large amount of rain to fall at the Randle and Packwood area on the upper Cowlitz River.
Officials are also concerned with the Nisqually River as two years ago it destroyed a road leading to a community near Ashford and a repeat is possible.
High winds affected ferry traffic for most of Tuesday.
Ferries on the Port Townsend/Keystone run were running up to an hour late at midday, but the delay was eventually shortened.
At one point, the ferries were fighting sustained winds up to 25 miles an hour.
City engineers in Seattle said landslides are a possibility over the next few days. An area on the West side of Queen Anne Hill along Lake Union gave way several years ago after becoming saturated and threatened a building on top.
Officials said homeowners should check any steep slopes on their property and look for cracks in the ground that could indicate a hill is shifting. People should also be aware of trees that are leaning more than before.
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5 comments:
I'm there !!!!!!!!!
ME TOO. Do you know how much fun you can have by cuddling up in your jammies, with a big pot of chili on the stove, and just watching the rain and wind outside your window, I can just hear the rain now, there is nothing better, than the sound of rain on your window's. OK I don't want to be out in it, but I would love to be on my big overstuffed sofa, with a good book..I'm sure glad you want to be here tho, because we love having you guy's here...
Ok crazies!!!!! I am living in the middle of all of this and I can tell you it's not romantic. It's scary when you are watching your "show" at 9:00pm and interupted with emergency testing....but this time it's not a test, it's real! I have never heard a real one befor. The flooding is soooo bad that they declared a state emergency for all of those counties. I don't know if you remember dad, the year the river flooded so bad it crossed the street in our neighborhood. Well guess what, it's happening again. I have a friend who's dad lives there and he lives across the street. He's had to leave his home until at least friday or saturday. It's depressing and feels like you're trapped and forget cute hair days ladies!!! And at 12:00 noon it looks like 6:00pm outside! Earthworms cover all of your cement patio, trying to live through the rain. Mind you I don't live near a river, and my back yard looks like a flippin pond!
Hey, a free swimming pool. I still would live there in a heartbeat... Much better than the hotter than double-toothpicks desert....
All I can say is, there MUST be people that like all that wet. There's lot's of them living up there. To each his/her own I guess. I had 40 years of that crap, and it was 39 years too much! I enjoy having actual 4 seasons like we have here.
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