Raining

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• swamp_knobbler_mahan

  January 2012

  I think it started yesterday afternoon? I don't recall any break.
  Floods: http://www.oregonlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2012/01/oregon_hit_with_major_flooding.html
• 1234

  January 2012

  It's never stopping. This is the new way.
• Clever_girl

  January 2012

  I don't mind clouds. I don't mind endless drizzle. I even like the fog and mist. But when it's POURING nonstop, I start to feel miserable.
• YoursTruly

  January 2012

  the rain today is BONKO.
  Getting off the I-5 I drove through a LAKE of water that brought my car to a STOP, and LITERALLY RIPPED OFF one of the mud flap fender thingies that's in the wheel-well. WTF!
  
  No fetch for the snoopy today
• YoursTruly

  January 2012

  also hear on the radio that upper Burnside (on the west side) is closed due to "Cascades of water and debris"
  
  doesn't sound good
• 1234

  January 2012

  That's way we're doing Happy Hour at Departure. MANY FLOORS ABOVE THE FLOODING STREETS.
• Leland

  January 2012

  You mean: When it's raining, it's pouring?
  
  (Wish I was getting tagged in Portland this evening.)
• Leland

  January 2012 edited January 2012

  Seattle is entering Day 2 of the second phase of a snowpocalypse that started, maybe Tuesday?
  
  Today was supposed to start with freezing rain, switching to regular rain and the typical northwest pattern of next-day-melt-off.
  
  But somebody forget to tell the atmosphere, so instead it's been getting colder and colder all day. The freezing rain turned to bonafide snow about 3pm. We are a hilly town. The week started with a holiday. People need to do their jobs and get groceries at least once a week or things get kind of wiggy. It's happening.
• YoursTruly

  January 2012

  sounds exciting!!!!
• Leland

  January 2012 edited January 2012

  Fun night. We pulled a big box out of a dumpster and did some sledding around in alleys and the big lawn of the Old Federal Courthouse. Guards came out but we were friendly and compliant (and one of us is seven). We move along as told but still had some fun.
  
  The craziest thing is the building across the street from my apartment. It is the Bank of America headquarters for the Northwest, a 42 story bulk that takes up the whole block. It has 42 floors of window casings that catch snow and ice and then sheer off and plummet down onto the street in very dangerous looking cascades. You can totally hear the chunks falling down the aluminum siding, knocking into each other, dislodging more and falling to the street. It is totally hypnotizing.
  
  
  
  Bank of America or Hines, the building managers, have posted giant yellow signs that say "Beware of Falling Ice and Snow" and blocked some of the sidewalks with yellow tape, but until tonight they didn't think of equipping the guys shoveling the sidewalks with hard hats. Weird.
  
  Wunderground.com shows the local temperature readings about to cross above freezing. Tomorrow seems likely to be just another day in the city.