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   forestgirl | Dec 05, 2007 04:19am | #1

   Hi, Frosty.  Nope, not on the rooftop, but the only time our property here on the Island has overflowed!!!  The drainage pond that catches water from the highway and points across it (located on our property, maybe halfway up elevation-wise) overflowed big-time, washed out part of our driveway, filled the lower part of our property.  Our street had a torrent on one side of it, and the house that's kitty-corner to use, located essentially at the bottom of 3 hills, had water running through the livingroom.

   The amount of rainfall we got yesterday was 2nd-most, so not quite a record, but really, really bad.  Interstate 5, the big highway, is under 10 feet of water at Chehalis, and there are a few communities that are completely cut off from the rest of the surrounding area.  Dozens of people had to be rescued from their homes.  It ain't pretty!

   Thanks for checkin' in, we're pretty OK!!!

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   
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   Ray | Dec 05, 2007 05:47am | #2

   Now y'all know what us southerners put up with during hurricane season :-(  Actually, we're from Port Angeles, my brother lives in Grays Harbor county.  He had it worse than we did during the last 2 hurricanes.

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   bones | Dec 06, 2007 07:00am | #6

   Hey, at least a hurricane never slipped up on anyone. Here in Tornado alley, you can have bluesky one minute and 150 mph wind the next.  When I moved here to STL 2 years ago, I learned quick when the sky turns green, make like a rabbit and get underground!Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

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   9619 | Dec 05, 2007 05:59am | #3

   Forestgirl,
   Been thinkin about ya.
   Glad to hear you are ok.
   MelMeasure your output in smiles per board foot. 

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   davidbrum | Dec 05, 2007 06:05pm | #4

   Yeah, I'm tired today. Spent all day Monday setting sandbags and boards up to divert water away from the store in Silverdale, then running home to shop vac water out of the wood shop. Spent all day yesterday scraping mud from the parking lot and ripping up carpets. Luckily my current WW project wasn't damaged! BTW, we actually did see a salmon swimming in front of the store. Davidb

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   forestgirl | Dec 05, 2007 08:23pm | #5

   Hi, David.  Silverdale usually gets much the worst of it (than we do) when these storms come barreling through!  Which store??  Sorry to hear you lost carpet and such, but glad to hear the WWing was safe.

   Late Sunday afternoon, it was raining here, the snow had pretty much melted away, and I decided to run into Silverdale for some stuff I'd forgotten to get at Costco previously.  The back road to SD still had hard-packed, rutted ice over it and cars littered the side of the road at various crazy angles and locations.  Looked like you guys got quite a bit more snow than we did! and it certainly was colder there than on this side of Agate Passage.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)