A bit of excitement in our corner of the universe

The main highway between Bellingham and where we live is State Route 542 otherwise known as the Mount Baker Highway (a Federal Scenic Byway). Here are some photographs of the highway around milepost #16:
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Click for full-size image. These are swiped from the Washington State Department of Transportation Flickr website. The upshot of this is that the store usually gets our beer delivery on Thursdays and the beer truck was not able to make it out. A popular bar in Glacier is out of beer and just closed its doors. We have some beer but there are also a lot of holes where certain brands are sold out. I had joked this morning about this being the year that Maple Falls runs out of beer. I was talking to one of the longtime residents and no, Maple Falls has run out of beer twice before and one time was New Years Eve. Fortunately, Maple Falls did not run out of Whiskey so people just switched. I was joking at dinner that in retrospect, it is good that we got our annual 100-year-storm out of the way for this year. Could use a bit of that global warming. The rest of the state is getting hit really hard too.