If you don’t know that it’s raining, then you’re not in Seattle right now. And oh, what a mess. Kent has already opened a flood shelter. We’ve already seen slides in the city, though not yet on the scale of 1996, when most of Magnolia slid into the Sound. And if it’s a local river, it’s under a flood warning, with the Snohomish being most worrisome:

Flood Warning continues for
the Snoqualmie river near Snoqualmie river near Carnation
* until late Wednesday night
* at 11am Monday the stage was... 53.8 feet
* flood stage is 54.0 feet
* record flooding is forecast
* forecast to rise above flood stage by late this morning and
continue to rise to near 61.5 feet by tomorrow late morning. The
river will fall below flood stage by Wednesday evening.

Snoqualmie Falls is at its most spectacular right now. Good luck getting to it, though.

Oh, and we’re at 2.86 inches of rain today at Sea-Tac. There’s a bit of a letup now, so it looks like the October 20, 2003, record of over 5 inches (I remember that day well) should remain intact, much to the chagrin of those nabobs at Seattlest.

So far for an El Nino year, it’s looking awfully La Nina. 1996 was a La Nina year, too.

Be safe out there. Us society matrons worry about you.

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