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Here Comes the Rain Again
Sun, Sep. 29th, 2013 06:48 amApparently yesterday's weather has made national news. And it's supposed to continue today.
I'm fine: warm and dry and up far too early (thanks, Ezekiel). Haven't lost power.
Yes, the rains have been astonishing the last day or so. It rains in Seattle but never like this. My home is at the top of an incline so flooding isn't quite the concern for me that it is for others. I did, however, spend all of yesterday indoors (except for dinner time--a magnificent meal at Tanglewood Supreme in the company of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
calendula_witch, markferrari and EB--apparently we arranged our dinner engagement at just the right time; the rain was soft and the winds were relatively low for a brief period, anyway). But I watched the storms from my windows. I've never seen standing water like that on my balcony before, and while I've seen the big fir trees in my neighbor's yard bend and sway before, yesterday it looked like they were pitching a fit.
Weirdly, when I was roused from bed by cats this morning (at 5:45), light was streaming into my living room window--from the moon, peeking through a break in the clouds, a break which has since closed up pretty thoroughly. It's still pretty windy out there. As the sun rises, I can see thick clouds marching across the sky, apparently lining up for another day of high-volume precipitation.
I need to go out for groceries, but I'm going to watch the weather carefully before I do anything. It may be a day of leftovers and improvisation.
Here's what the forecast map looks like from USAToday. That little black pin in the map there pinpoints my neighborhood. Looks like an invasion, doesn't it? Reminds me of the motion sensor maps in the movie "Aliens." I brace myself for the onslaught.
I'm fine: warm and dry and up far too early (thanks, Ezekiel). Haven't lost power.
Yes, the rains have been astonishing the last day or so. It rains in Seattle but never like this. My home is at the top of an incline so flooding isn't quite the concern for me that it is for others. I did, however, spend all of yesterday indoors (except for dinner time--a magnificent meal at Tanglewood Supreme in the company of
calendula_witch, markferrari and EB--apparently we arranged our dinner engagement at just the right time; the rain was soft and the winds were relatively low for a brief period, anyway). But I watched the storms from my windows. I've never seen standing water like that on my balcony before, and while I've seen the big fir trees in my neighbor's yard bend and sway before, yesterday it looked like they were pitching a fit. Weirdly, when I was roused from bed by cats this morning (at 5:45), light was streaming into my living room window--from the moon, peeking through a break in the clouds, a break which has since closed up pretty thoroughly. It's still pretty windy out there. As the sun rises, I can see thick clouds marching across the sky, apparently lining up for another day of high-volume precipitation.
I need to go out for groceries, but I'm going to watch the weather carefully before I do anything. It may be a day of leftovers and improvisation.
Here's what the forecast map looks like from USAToday. That little black pin in the map there pinpoints my neighborhood. Looks like an invasion, doesn't it? Reminds me of the motion sensor maps in the movie "Aliens." I brace myself for the onslaught.