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jamesu
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Mar 13, 2016

Sunday Pac NW storm

In anticipation of this week's 2nd round of windstorms later today, Olympic NP has closed roads to a number of park locations over fear of downed trees, etc., among them Hurricane Ridge.

Thursday's windstorm, along with high tides in coastal areas, caused major power outages and plenty of disruption in Western Washington. This afternoon's predicted storm could be more of the same.
  • Hang on yo your hats and lawn chairs if it is anything like Thursday's storm. We had downed trees in the southern interior, the highway south of Salmon Arm was closed for a time.
  • Yes indeed.
    Tall timber around our house are really bending and whipping...along with completely saturated ground they will be coming down....I'm not thinking the power will be on much longer.
  • This is one plus to living in the Washington Desert. The tumble weeds roll by, but not many trees to come crashing down. :)
  • I made sure I had gas for the gennie and my chores done early, so of course, no storm :)
  • we live on 5 acres with lots of trees.

    we lost power the previous Thursday storm, for about 10 hours. i do have a Champion 3500 generator for backup power.

    so we were concerned about Sundays storm. it was stronger winds, up to 50-60mps gusts, but we only had a couple of very short power losses.

    and NO trees fell, even though many were really bending over. Cedars, firs, maples and alders.
  • We're also on 5 acres. We're in an area with no natural windbreaks and the wind can get pretty nasty sometimes. Sunday's wind was high but short-lived compared to last week's storm. No power outages in our immediate area.

    A tree fell on a car in Seattle and killed the occupant. A tree fell on a house here last week and killed a woman. Deaths from windstorms are rare in the PNW.

    Have always wanted to experience a storm at the world famous Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It's surrounded by the ocean on 3 sides and was built to withstand high winds. The trick is to book a date when you know there will be a big storm. :) Even *if* you magically could, the ferries would likely be shut down tho. :( Wichaninnish Inn

  • We are camp-hosting at Fort Worden State park in Port Townsend, and yesterday was wild. I think the first storm was worse, but then again it was at night and the night storms seem worse because you can't see what is going on. Sure did clear the park out though. I hope that was the last storm for awhile. We live in Washington so we are used to them, but hate them all the same.
  • Didn't have to worry camping in the storm as it came to us big time. First one we had 5 trees from the neighbors come down on our property and we spent the night in the MH in the backyard as we lost power for about 6 hours. The neighbor trimmed out all of those and then this weekend we had several come down on top of the ones he'd just cut. Another tree came down on the roof and punched a hole in a bedroom ceiling and another is just hanging un the crotch of a tree and the tree guy is working on how to drop them. Of and it's right over the new septic tank and drain field.
    Kinda cool as we were without power again for 10 hours and spent the night in the MH again.
    The big problem was that I couldn't get the gennie started either time and it ran great last week. Batteries held up well though.
  • jamesu wrote:
    In anticipation of this week's 2nd round of windstorms later today...


    Sounds reminiscent of a typical winter on the coast in the PNW. Very interesting place to live and can keep you on your toes :)

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