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Catastrophic flooding in western Washington State. Western Montana also appears to have some flooding, likely from snow melt.

Nothing like those news stories here with some local, water rescue teams being sent to the westside of the Cascades. In this area, there were several thousand customers without power yesterday afternoon. It may be worse now since our 45-50 mph wind gusts were mostly after 10PM.

The local wind advisory is ending this morning so, maybe, things are calming down.

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The local wind advisory is ending this morning so, maybe, things are calming down.

i sure hope so!

as for flooding and sewage spills, it's pretty common in older cities that they first put in combined sewer systems for the stormwater drains and the sewage itself. now when they get funding and the chance a lot of cities are reworking their systems to break them apart which means that the storm water can be captured and lightly treated or sent directly into the waterways and the sewage can be also treated but a lot more and in some places they are treating it enough now that the water can be returned to potable use.
 

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Marie I see from the yard pic your up higher than the road. Rain won’t flood your home. A lot of flooding here in western Oregon. Has not effected where I am because I am up in the foothills 800’ higher than the normal sea level of Portland. It’s very windy 55 mph . 10” of rain in the last 3 days and rivers are over flowing causing flooding in many areas of the western PNW.

The roads to drive to town are flooded , more rain today. As a the strongest atmospheric river is making its way through the PNW. I had several power outages so far and running internet from my iPhone to post today.
The City of Portland has issued a combined overflow for the Willamette River, meaning human waste has spilled into the water way.

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Yes, I am very grateful we are on a mountain. There's been a lot of flooding which thankfully we don't suffer up here
 

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we had forecast of snow and storm warning for today and it did snow last night enough to take the power out for a few hours from trees on the wires someplace. we were the only place that didn't have power my brother said (we call him to look and give us an idea of when they might have the power back on).

the power did come back on right when i had finished up breakfast (we use a can of chicken soup in the propane fireplace to warm up and then i can use the empty can to heat water for coffee and hot chocolate after we eat the soup).

as usual we had turned the heat down to 65F overnight and didn't even think about how cold it would be if the power went out but we got the propane fireplace going and that will keep us warm enough - it will run without any electricity at all.

as much as i don't like the propane fireplace at least it does keep us from being i danger of freezing and gives us a chance to get some hot food and drinks, but it is a pain to get going (we don't use it often enough that i remember how to get it lit :) but today i figured out the problem i'm having is that the knob has to be turned to a position that isn't marked or that lines up with the markers, so that's the problem i'm having, hopefully i'll remember this for next time (i should get some red nail polish on there and mark it).
I thought you had a fireplace. There are worth they weight in gold at times like this
 

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