Let the pictures begin!
Near the Microsoft Campus in Issaquah, a little stream
filled the watershed area with a blanket of roiling water...
Where I live in North Bend,
the Snoqualmie River has spilled over the retention dikes
that guide the river through town... the waters have begun
to flood the downtown areas...
Half the town is shut down and blocked off... it makes
getting around a bit difficult.
The interstate is closed...
trucks are stacked up along the side of the roadway along my
exit.
I live at 1050 - 1100 feet or
so... and I live on the high side of a retention pond... but
I'm still watching the flood waters creep across my yard,
and closer to my house.
I still have a considerable
amount of leeway before water enters the house... my doorway
is about 6 inches above the top of the deck. The
roadway slopes down from where I live, and the water would
be hard pressed to come up that high... but its curious to
see just how close to the base of the deck it'll go
My neighbor's house, however, is lower than my
property... he's got water entering the house, and its still
going higher...
He's got two pretty serious pumps going... but the
outflow is basically just flowing back into the waters of
the retention pond, so its a vicious circle.
Not a sign you'd expect to see too often when you live
close to 1100 feet above sea level!
A local stream jumped its
banks, and found a faster way to get to the retention pond,
taking a shortcut through another neighbor's house, and down
the roadway... its really making a mess of several of my
neighbor's yards
My shed, which we put in this
spring, is starting to be overrun... I'm hoping it doesn't
float off the pad its on.
The edge of the floodwaters is
drifting across the yard... you can see the dark line
marking the new shoreline. Its POURING still!
Its really been raining HARD for two days now!
A few houses down, my neighbor is bearing the brunt of
the changed river course... the water is just flowing down
his driveway and into his yard.
A LOT of water is flowing into his yard.
A bit up the the road in the other direction, a stream is
overrunning the roadway, and undercutting the roadbed.
things are getting pretty messy...
Gravel, eroded by a stream that changed its course, is
deposited on the road. A line of sandbags tries to
keep the water going in a reasonably safer direction.
This guy's driveway is a complete mess! I'm sure
before too long it'll be cleaned up... he's trying to sell
his house, actually... he advertises the fact that there's a
river on the property... but it didn't mention that it
sometimes uses the driveway to flow down the hill!
