{"id":5387,"date":"2009-01-08T10:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T18:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:36:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:36:35","slug":"stormpocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/08\/stormpocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormpocalypse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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20:04:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:520},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4645,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.q13fox.com\\\/pages\\\/news_story_landing_page\\\/?TRAFFIC-ALERT-I-5-Could-Be-Closed-For-Da=1&amp;blockID=179321&amp;feedID=144&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.q13fox.com\\\/pages\\\/news_story_landing_page\\\/?TRAFFIC-ALERT-I-5-Could-Be-Closed-For-Da=1&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4646,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/wsdot\\\/status\\\/1104011967&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>First off, the good news: we&#8217;re not being affected by the current weather craziness hitting the northwest. While we&#8217;re near the Green River, which is pretty high at the moment &#8212; the National Weather Service Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service has <a href=\"http:\/\/ahps2.wrh.noaa.gov\/ahps2\/hydrograph.php?wfo=sew&amp;gage=aubw1&amp;view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1\" title=\"National Weather Service Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service: Green River\">one checkpoint on the Green River<\/a>, near Aburn (just south of us), which shows it at &#8216;Action Stage&#8217; but already crested and predicted to drop (check other NW area rivers <a href=\"http:\/\/ahps2.wrh.noaa.gov\/ahps2\/index.php?wfo=sew&amp;view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1&amp;toggles=10,7,8,2,9,15,6\" title=\"National Weather Service Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service\">here<\/a> &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;ll be flooding in our area.<\/p>\n<p>That said, this is nuts! This stormpocalypse hit us in two stages: first the snowpocalypse, and now the floodpocalypse (yes, the nomenclature is silly, but that&#8217;s part of the fun). I&#8217;ve been watching <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23waflood\" title=\"Twitter Search: #waflood\">#waflood<\/a> on Twitter, and it&#8217;s been fascinating watching all the updates appear.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also neat seeing just who all is involved with this method of awareness and communication. In addition to all the &#8220;normal people&#8221; giving updates, the Washington State Department of Transportation is using <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wsdot\" title=\"Twitter: wsdot\">WSDOT<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/terpening\" title=\"Twitter: terpening\">@terpening<\/a> (as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wsdot\/collections\/72157612297763784\/\" title=\"Flickr: WSDOT: January 2009 - Storm Damage\">their Flickr account<\/a>, the city of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bellingham\" title=\"Twitter: bellingham\">Bellingham<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/femainfocus\" title=\"Twitter: femainfocus\">FEMA<\/a> (a far cry from Katrina!), the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RedCross\" title=\"Twitter: redcross\">Red Cross<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kingcountynews\" title=\"Twitter: kingcountynews\">King County<\/a>, and probably plenty of other official organizations are joining in. Lots of good information coming out&#8230;even when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q13fox.com\/pages\/news_story_landing_page\/?TRAFFIC-ALERT-I-5-Could-Be-Closed-For-Da=1&amp;blockID=179321&amp;feedID=144\" title=\"Q13 Fox: Traffic Alert: I-5 Could Be Closed For Days\">the information isn&#8217;t good<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Washington Transportation Secretary Paula<br \/>\n  Hammond says Interstate 5 at Chehalis could be closed for four<br \/>\n  days.<\/p>\n<p>  The Transportation Department is monitoring the flooding. The DOT says I-5 is closed  from US 12, milepost 68, to Grand Mound, milepost 88 in Lewis County due to the rising water in Dillenbaugh Creek south of Chehalis.<\/p>\n<p>  Hammond says the flooding is similar to the December 2007 flood that caused a four-day blockage on the main north-south route in Western Washington.<\/p>\n<p>  Hammond says when the Chehalis River crests Thursday night,<br \/>\n  officials expect water to be 10 feet deep over the highway. After<br \/>\n  the water starts falling, crews plan to use pumps and breach a levy<br \/>\n  to help the water drain out.<\/p>\n<p>  Hammond says about 10,000 trucks a day travel I-5 and the<br \/>\n  financial impact of the closure on freight movement is about $4<br \/>\n  million a day. That&#8217;s made worse by the closure of the three major<br \/>\n  Cascade passes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wsdot\/status\/1104011967\" title=\"wsdot: There are no north south routes...\">an early morning WSDOT tweet<\/a>, &#8220;There are no north south routes available between Seattle and Portland, or east west routes from Western WA to Spokane at this time #waflood&#8221;. Unless you want to go to Canada, Seattle and its surrounding metro area is essentially completely cut off!<\/p>\n<p>Crazy stuff, and I&#8217;m counting myself quite glad to not be <em>directly<\/em> impacted by any of this &#8212; though it came close, as Prairie&#8217;s dad sent us a shot of the Lewis River just outside his house in Woodland (in southern Washington, just north of Vancouver, which is just north of Portland).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lewisriver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lewisriver-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis River Flooding\" title=\"Lewis River Flooding\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The river holding, the rising has slowed, four feet to the top of the bank, then four feet to the main floor. Am watching close, a fireman rang the door bell, said be ready to evacuate, have been planning but have taken no action, hope that I don&#8217;t have to scramble.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds like the river didn&#8217;t get <em>quite<\/em> high enough for evacuation, but that&#8217;s pretty close!<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;what&#8217;s going to be Stormpocalypse Part III?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, the good news: we&#8217;re not being affected by the current weather craziness hitting the northwest. That said, this is nuts! This stormpocalypse hit us in two stages: first the snowpocalypse, and now the floodpocalypse. 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