Posted on 12/16/2025 6:49:25 PM PST by Mariner
PACIFIC, Wash. — Hundreds of neighbors in the King County city of Pacific were jolted out of bed early Tuesday as messages telling them to evacuate immediately blared through the area.
“Water just started coming up. I was sleeping and next thing you know there’s all these sirens and cars and people outside,” said Johnny Sivilay, who lives on Third Avenue SE. “I came outside and my car was in water so I had to move it. People were breaking my fence trying to get to safety."
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It's still raining.
More than a dozen weak spots in the levees.
When the levee breaks, you got no place to go.
Pacific is about 10 mile south of the Seattle airport.
The most memorable thing I remember about the area is Mount Rainier in the distance [~35 miles].
Don’t forget the Snohomish and Snoqualmie rivers.
The forecast for my area in Oregon, Western toehills of the Cascades, for Thursday is 3 to possibly 5 inches of rain in 24-hours. That could cause flooding in my area.
Not at my house, though. I’m 650 feet up a hill, or rather, on the western end of a ridge.
My other house is in Hamilton along the Skaggit. Nothing to see there. Then again, the reservoir was pretty low.
The winds whipped up quickly and caused a limb to smash through my bathroom skylight. A deluge of rain poured in. Everything was covered with water, pine cones, branches, and tiny bits of glass. We put a tarp over the opening held down with bricks to stop the rain from pouring in. It took three hours to clean up the mess. I can imagine our house with a foot of water in the house like some other unfortunate residents.
I remember when much of the valley on Renton side was a swamp.
Have wondered why bathroom skylights were such a thing. We have a property that had one, when we put a new roof on I covered it up.
One less issue
This one gave light to the bathroom during the day. However the fir nettles covered the glass requiring frequent cleaning. That time on the roof included small branch clearing and applying moss control.
lol that’s what light bulbs are for, to many negatives to skylights IMO😂
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