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.
*How'd you like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island ... how'd you like to hang your stocking from a great big coconut tree?* ... Oh, sorry! You already do!
We've got your temperatures here in SE TX, but not the atmosphere!
It must have warmed up down there. Got a phone call about a week or so ago from a friend just east of Dallas and he said it was freezing down there.
Ugly stuff, but there are bright spots. Just bought me a new chainsaw. You know how when you've got a hammer everything looks like a nail? Heh heh...
You're not so odd...I love 'em too! But having several huge pine trees out back DOES make me a bit nervous. This is supposed to be a whopper of a storm! I hope everyone's homes stay intact! :)
Some how our local butcher has crabs. She is holding 4 of them for Friday evening. One each for my wife and I and two for our 7-10000 calorie per day bicycle rider.
Our DIL has been planning a Crab Feed for her kid's school to raise money in January. We tried to warn her about the problem of no crabs due to storms. She didn't listen, and I keep sending her little emails like this one.
"I don't have a brain but I am on my way to the Emerald City to see the Wizard."
Save your money and gas. Tubebender, Ernest and I bought the last spare brains from the Wizard. Thank you Lord for MediCare.
We have had 15 to 18 foot high swells in our coastal area. Smart crabbers don't venture out in that stuff. It is relative calm today.
She is a long time head butcher at one of our small local chains. She has professional salmon fishers and crabbers that she deals directly with in the Bodega Bay area.
I hope the Wizard isn't out of Sense of Humors as there are hoards of Liberals out there that need them.
It is safer for us, our sons/daughters and grand children if liberals don't have a brain or an active CNS system.
Thank you, like I said I am ignorant and I was hoping a FReeper would educate me....Do you climb?
Dallas maybe, but this is southeast Texas - Houston. It will be near 80 every day until about Wed of next week when this NW storm gets here.
Then we'll be in the 30s-40s for highs, just in time for Christmas. (Then probably back to 80, lol. *Welp, that was winter, folks!*)
This means take the Niners and the points.
This link is a satellite view of the west coast.
http://maps.wunderground.com/data/640x480/2xpa_ir.gif
He..He....working on avoiding taxes on my IRA withdrawals....suppose to start this year....but MFM says I can actually start next year....by April 15 .....
Here in Grants Pass the Daily Worrier says we're supposed to have 2-4" of snow on the valley floor by tomorrow!
I live on the banks of the Rogue, and the water level is WAAAY up from yesterday...it's the highest I've seen it this early in the season in many years.
I'm looking forward to finally seeing snow, and hopefully Mount Ashland will open up with a good base.
Ed
CBS News Insists Confetti,Champagne Were Not in Celebration of Democrats Gaining Control of Congress
Well guess it was posted under Humor....but I still think it is true....
The nice thing about this storm is, there's a big Surrender Now Rally (aka a "Peace" Rally) being held Sunday in front of the JoCo courthouse, where Senator Neville Chamberlain Smith's anti-Iraqi speech will be read, and I'm hoping the weather is so miserable they all go scurrying like drowned rats away from the rain!
I'm considering whether to do a counter-protest of those goofballs, but prolly won't...I don't want to get wet, either!
Ed
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