Stay Safe.....SEATTLE IS GETTING the SNAUT Blown out of them..

[rsmith6621]

......just had a gust measured by my Weather Channel weather station clocked at 58kts and heavy rain blowing sideways rain about 16 miles south of Seattle...

Nasty Saturday night...stay safe...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Yup, they are. Here's a weather map that shows this...

Here's a cool weather radar map that shows the whole country; Seattle is in the upper left hand corner, appropriately enough!

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php

[MadMaddie]

2. I am on the Eastside of Seattle and it is blustery

electricity is acting kind of funny.....no worries we have plenty of batteries and flashlights...

[suffragette]

4. My lights just blinked a moment ago

[Wheezy]

3. I'm downtown Seattle on book tour

at the moment. The lights in my hotel keep flickering...

[nolabear]

8. Do tell... Should I be attending your reading? Are you at Elliott Bay?

[Codeine]

18. Hey, my girlfriend reads your books!

Too cool! :hi:

[OneGrassRoot]

23. Ah, I think you changed your DU name?

I recall the books -- gonna check them out!

Kudos to you and best wishes for your continued success!

:hi:

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Time of year for it, if my memory serves.

November and Feb. seemed to be the storm months when I lived there.

[HuckleB]

7. It has been VERY mild in the northwest thus far this winter.

So maybe it's just our turn, but it's still much too warm. The Cascades have very little snow pack.

[nolabear]

6. I'm in Seattle and this afternoon I saw the craziest thing!

We have floating bridges that connect us to the Eastside across Lake Washington. When it's windy the water gets blown right over the rails. Today I was in an inexplicable traffic jam leading to the 520 bridge and when I got onto the bridge (I was on the leeward side) I saw a Smart Car on the other side being escorted across by the police at a crawl, darn near being knocked sideways by the wind and water.

Yuppers, it's blowing like a mofo.

[bobbolink]

11. If the Smart Car owner is a RWer, I hope he/she gets soaked handsomely for the

services of the government.

:evilgrin:

[regnaD kciN]

14. I can't imagine a conservative driving a Smart Car...

Too small and doesn't use enough gas. They'd be the ones driving SUVs.

[bobbolink]

15. You never know. They are a weird bunch.

Actually, I know a couple in the town where I grew up... went to high school with them. They are all about the enironment, but don't give a rip about poor people, or the good uses of government funds.

It could be them. ^_^

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Were you there when the floating bridge was sunk by a storm?

Not the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, but the Lake Washington bridge.

[nolabear]

16. In fact I drove across that bridge just a couple of hours before it sank.

I lived on the Eastside at the time and was driving back from a Christmas shopping trip into the city. I distinctly remember seeing water lapping over the side (as opposed to blowing, as it did today) and thinking "Floating bridge. FLOATING bridge. Shouldn't it be floating higher?" Sure enough it went down not long after.

[regnaD kciN]

19. Strictly speaking, you drove across the NEWER span of the bridge...

...the one that didn't sink. The one that went down was closed to motor traffic for renovations (which is actually why it sank -- they forgot to cover the pontoon hatches over the weekend, and the water from the storm filled them.

[TriMera]

9. I'm in Kent.

We just had hail. The lights haven't flickered yet. My MIL is on oxygen, so it's a bit of a pain when the electric goes out. We're always ready, though.:hi:

[Mulhane]

10. Great Galloping Gertie!

Tacoma must be partially protected by the Olympics, but yeaBob windy it be. Wouldn't want to cross the Narrows bridge tonight...it might revert to "Galloping Gertie" again.

[regnaD kciN]

13. Not a chance...

The problem with the infamous original Tacoma Narrows bridge was that it was, in effect, too "narrow" -- only one lane in each direction -- for its length, and vibrated at a resonant frequency in wind. The new bridge (or bridges, since there's now one going each way) is/are four lanes wide, and won't suffer the same phenomena in even the strongest winds.

[Gregorian]

17. It's calm in Mendocino, but I raced to get some logging done before the rain.

This is actually an excuse for learning how to post a pic.

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[Suich]

21. Nice!

You building something with those logs?

:shrug:

[Gregorian]

24. Hey!

Yes. I'm living in the shop in the photo. I am designing a mezzanine that runs the length of it. It'll be a living quarters. Tongue and groove 2 by 12 boards for the flooring. 1 by 10 for the parapet wall. I am no fan of logging. But it was a lot of excitement planning and cutting that tree.

[yewberry]

20. Nasty night here on the west side.

We've had some flickering. I'm actually grateful, though, because Bainbridge usually loses power every time a caterpillar sneezes.

[RandomThoughts]

22. I am in Normandy Park, not far from Seattle.

Weather is fine here, was a couple gust hours ago, but no rain or wind storm where I am.

Although I like the wind in the trees, and the rain doesn't bother me, but there is not a storm where I am.