North Cascades Highway Closed

Guess, they have had some major rains over the past few days there.
We have the spin off effect just north in the Okanagan.
Unheard of amounts of rain for this area.

Lots of rain and lightening Thursday night. Currently camping in Randle between Mts. Rainier, St. Helen's and Adams...was pretty wild here.

This last batch of rain was heavier south of Tacoma than further north. At least that's what measurements showed. There might have been pockets of heavier rain further north.

There was a flash flood at Stehekin (north end of Lake Chelan), affecting some business and long term parking. The North Cascades flickr account has pictures of that.

Down Rainier way, there were mudflows over WA410 - closer to US12 than the mountain. WSDOT has photoes of that.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot

WSDOT flickr has photos of both WA20 and WA410.

https://twitter.com/wsdot

US2 through Tumwater Canyon is closed this week.

I5 will detour around the Skagit River bridge this weekend, specifically Saturday night. The contractor has almost finished the permanent replacement span, and hopes to roll it into place overnight.

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/News/2013/09/09_I5SkagitRiverBridgespanupdate.htm

They're hoping to get SR 20 open by Thursday.