{"id":3927,"date":"2006-11-27T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T21:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/27\/ranier-and-the-flood\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:26:06","slug":"rainier-and-the-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/27\/rainier-and-the-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainier and the Flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6199,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/home.nps.gov\\\/mora\\\/parknews\\\/november-2006-flooding.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/nps.gov\\\/mora\\\/learn\\\/news\\\/november-2006-flooding.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;pending&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6200,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/sets\\\/72157594264516743&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308223015\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/sets\\\/72157594264516743&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/sets\\\/72157594264516743&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 00:53:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 19:35:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 06:54:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 06:54:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6201,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/home.nps.gov\\\/mora\\\/parknews\\\/images-of-the-flood-of-2006.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080907220742\\\/http:\\\/\\\/home.nps.gov\\\/mora\\\/parknews\\\/images-of-the-flood-of-2006.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/nps.gov\\\/mora\\\/learn\\\/news\\\/images-of-the-flood-of-2006.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 19:35:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 06:54:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 06:54:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Looks like the scenery is going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/home.nps.gov\/mora\/parknews\/november-2006-flooding.htm\" title=\"Mount Rainier National Park: November 2006 Flooding\">a little bit different<\/a> next time Prairie and I are able to head down to Mt. Rainier for a weekend getaway. The heavy rains and flooding of the past weeks have hit Rainier National Park <em>hard<\/em>, including quite a few of the areas that we went through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/sets\/72157594264516743\/\" title=\"Flickr: Mt. Rainier\">this summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  All park roads and entrances remain closed. Crews continue repair work on Nisqually Road at Sunshine Point and on Longmire utilities.<\/p>\n<p>  Extensive damage to backcountry bridges and trails. Sections of the Wonderland Trail may be unusable next summer.<\/p>\n<p>  The suspension bridge and boardwalk damaged at the Grove of the Patriarchs. The Grove is covered in a thick layer of silt.<\/p>\n<p>  More than two miles of the [Carbon] road are severely damaged. There are washed out sections in at least four places.<\/p>\n<p>  The main channel of the Nisqually River is pushing closer to the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) building. Parking behind the building is gone.<\/p>\n<p>  The [Sunshine Point] campground, located directly on the bank of the Nisqually River, and the dike that protected it, is gone with the exception of a few campsites.<\/p>\n<p>  The [Longmire] main campground road is completely removed at the road fork immediately behind the Community Building.<\/p>\n<p>  About 200 yards of the [Nisqually] road is washed out and impassable at the former entrance to Sunshine Point Campground.<\/p>\n<p>  Both lanes [of SR123] are washed out at MP 11.5 to a depth of 60-80 feet.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And those are just some of the key, most recognizable areas (well, most recognizable to <em>me<\/em> after a whopping single visit to the park).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a collection of images and videos surveying the damage <a href=\"http:\/\/home.nps.gov\/mora\/parknews\/images-of-the-flood-of-2006.htm\" title=\"Mount Rainier National Park: Images of the Flood of 2006\">on this page<\/a>. Pretty impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the scenery is going to be a little bit different next time Prairie and I are able to head down to Mt. Rainier for a weekend getaway. The heavy rains and flooding of the past weeks have hit Rainier National Park _hard_, including quite a few of the areas that we went through this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}