Posted by on Jan 13, 2009 in Blogging | 6 comments

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the crazy flooding that’s been going on around here in Washington. The damage it has caused has been insanely crazy. It only reminds me of the 2007 flood, although from what I understand it was no where near as bad as that. They did indeed close down I-5, and if you’re from this area, you’d know that I-5 is a major way to get from Portland to Seattle, or well anywhere, going north and south. It’s a big deal. Let me put it to you this way: I was supposed to get some medical goods from Portland, but since I-5 was closed, they couldn’t deliver it. The driver simply had no way to get to me except via a super roundabout way, which would take the driver perhaps 3 or 4 hours out of the way. That’s crazy. Now for the real thing. Some actual pictures from I-90, Snoqualmie pass. Thankfully I’m no where near either of these places! (And who knew that WA DOT had a flickr page?)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot/sets/72157612242253091/show/

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6 Comments

  1. 1-13-2009
    Danalyn says:

    Wow. That sucks.

    I remember back in Hawaii, we lived out on the west end of the island, and there was only ONE major highway that took us in and out to the rest of the island…of course, this was along the edge of the island, right on the shore…so whenever storms would get bad and raise the surf, the roads would get flooded and covered with walls of sand, so yeah…know how that goes.

    • 1-13-2009
      Yoshi says:

      yeah i can imagine how it would so bad in hawaii. and I heard that the crime rate in hawaii was high. how can that be? where are you going to go to escape?

  2. 1-13-2009
    Tug says:

    We have an office in Chehalis…flooded for the second year in a row, and I saw a video on one of the WA news sites that went right over it. Much suckage…hope you're OK!

    • 1-13-2009
      Yoshi says:

      Yeah, we're ok. luckily our house is on THE main street of town (busy, this road gets 27,000 cars a DAY!) and we're above the flooding level. but yeah people in chehalis have got it bad!

  3. 1-13-2009
    Abraxus says:

    That looked pretty UnGood yep. I can't say I know what it's like to be flooded out..but if it'd anything like a blizzard for shutting things down I think I can imagine.

    • 1-13-2009
      Yoshi says:

      Yeah, it's bad. Actually the pictures of snoqualmie were of the snow, but there's a lot of flood shots in that flickr account. :P

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