Posted on 12/14/2006 7:43:19 AM PST by djf
Freepers from Oregon, Western Washington, Vancouver island: ALERT!!! Major storm forecast today, and it's not like yesterday was exactly a nice May day either. This could be the biggest of the year. If you have a thermos, make your coffee now! Widespread power outages predicted.
Winds expected to start very high on the coast this afternoon, moving into Puget Sound by the latter part of the evening and continuing very high until mid morning.
Batten down the hatches!
December 14th, 2006 - 6:02am
(Port Angeles) -- It could be a wild weather night for the North Olympic Peninsula. The National Weather Service says another storm is expected to bring very strong winds and rain to the state later today and continuing into tomorrow. Sustained winds of 40 miles per hour or more are forecast for both sides of the Cascades -- and the weather service says gusts could reach 80 or 90 miles per hour on the coast. Meteorologist Jay Albrecht with the Seattle National Weather Service office tells Newsradio 1450 KONP an intense low is expected to form today and move onto the North Olympic Peninsula sometime tonight -- possibly between 8 and 10 o'clock. He says computer models show once the low passes off to the northeast, there will be a very strong westerly surge through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, with 60 to 80 mile an hour winds possible over the water. Albrecht says the area he is worried about the most tonight is the west side of Whidbey Island, but all water-exposed areas could get hammered. Forecasters have a high wind watch in effect for all of Western Washington.
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Courtesy ping. (as if y'all didn't already know this!)
Looks like another one of those El Nino "cold hurricanes". I can hardly wait until they start hitting Northern California in January. :(
I'm not looking forward to it, sitting here under all these tall trees.
I've about ~had it~ with wind!
I was talking with someone yesterday about them, at the time I thought they might have another 24 hours or so. This is very bad news for them.
I feel bad for their families. But anybody who has spent any time up here in the high mountain area KNOWS you're basically a total idiot if you go above 5000 feet this time of year.
You have had a rough season...stay welll, stay safe
I'm glad my home isn't one of these:
http://home.comcast.net/~Shoreline15/alliance.htm
I don't care to get salt water in my house.
If we wave a white flag, do you think it'll turn around and leave us alone this time?
At least we're hopefully running out of standing dead trees.
When I think of the Pacific NW I imagine hills, bluffs and promitories. Take away the dark gravel on that beach and it could be mistaken for North Carolina.
What are your plans? Are you riding this out in Bellevue, or heading to the beach house? We canceled out of going up there to decorate today.
My family lives just south of the Oregon border in N. Calif. and they are commercial fishermen. Crab season is now open but the boats can't get out to set their crab pots.
I thought of posting this news last night. Apparently, this storm which stretches from Washington/Oregon to Hawaii is a nasty booger that will impact the entire nation.
Some parts of the Pacific are already seeing 100 mph winds. Snows are supposed to descend to 1000 ft.
I've read the 10 day forecast that predicts a heavy snow line in the midwest and northeast with heavy rains south of the front.
I'm thinking about what to do this morning. I'd been planning to just stay up here, but I'm wondering if I shouldn't bug out early and head south. Don't know.
I suppose there's not much to do other than fret about the trees.
True... The weak trees are already down, so there's that :~)
That's what I'm planning to do :~)
Where my in-laws live.... Storms like this are nothing new, though.
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