Major flooding and wind storm up at the farm. Over six inches of warm rain in two days. The rain also melted the existing accumulation of snowpack so the flooding was especially bad. Maple Falls was isolated as were several other towns both larger and smaller. Major highways (I-5, SR-542, SR-9) were closed at points - some with detours, some without. Power outage on top of everything else. Had to spend an extra day up there.
My store has a hardwired backup generator so we were able to stay open - one of the night crew was not able to come in so I helped out. Kicking myself for not bringing up a ham radio set - would have been really handy...
Back on the island - temp is 52°F and sunny with puffy clouds. Like night and day.
More later - unpack the van, do some laundry and get some groceries.
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