Living in the wet Northwest

It's been raining every single day for the past couple of weeks, with storm after storm coming through. The prediction for today goes like this: "[A] potentially very strong and very windy low pressure system will approach the coast later today and move through the forecast area tonight and early Monday. The weather will remain unsettled with additional systems through next week." (courtesy kgw.com, emphasis added) Doesn't that sound like fun?

It's really been horrible for a number of people with rivers re-routing themselves and taking out homes in the process. One fellow had to quickly cut down part of his forest property and move the house as the river carved a new path toward his home. Another couple had cancelled their flood insurance only six months ago (after 20 years of never needing it), only to have the entire side of their house torn off by the newly-widened Sandy River(that's the river in the photo, but a different house). It really is tragic. Luckily, we live up on a hill and the only area flooded is our beloved 'farm' at the end of the road. Technically, it's a wetlands area, so it's supposed to be soggy. But my heart (and a few dollars in donations) goes out to those families so dramatically affected by these storms.


44 days till departure.