Storm Blogging

The Pineapple Express hit with a vengeance this afternoon. Winds gusting in the 70's and 80's, temperature were under 30 degrees yesterday and now they are in the mid 50's, lots of rain, flooding and mudslides. I hear that Seattle took it a lot worse than we did -- I was in a storm there in the early part of this year that dumped 3 inches and the city ground to a halt. Today they got five inches. Our power went out in the early afternoon and was restored around 5:00PM, just had a few seconds outage a few moments ago as I was typing the previous paragraph. Needless to say, all computers are on decent sized UPSs. Here is our local river just below flood stage:

The first shows a large standing wave near the bridge that takes us to Bellingham. The second shows an island with some tree snags - only the tips of the snags are showing. Logs were flowing downriver as I was standing there. Still, Jen brought in a bunch of firewood while I was working at the store and if the power goes out again, we have a generator for lights and to keep our deep freezers running (we have the remains of a very tasty cow and an equally tasty pig sitting there at zero degrees Fahrenheit.) Life is good...