Not here, where it is quite sunny (well, it was during the day), but in the Northwest. Poor little Tillamook County, home of our beach house, has been particularly inundated with the intense rain and wind of the last few days. In fact, the Oregonian reported "Tillamook County was so cut off that the National Weather Service in Portland had trouble reaching emergency officials there to find out how badly the area had been damaged by floodwaters." Not only is the power out in most, if not all, of the county, but the phone lines are also down. In addition, all of the roads that lead into the county are blocked by floods, landslides, and/or fallen trees (actually, I just read that they reopened one of the roads at 6:30pm). I am worried for all our friends who live full-time at the beach, but know that they are prepared for bad coastal weather and its consequences. Hopefully we will be able to contact them soon and find out how they are doing!
On a more humorous note, apparently OES had some flooding issues of their own from Fanno Creek (which makes sense since the next-door golf course runs the creek through concrete on their property, making it even more flood prone than usual). Their picture on the homepage is priceless: good thing all those people have their SUVs to get them through the flood.
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Oh no!
"Oregon's largest living thing, the National co-champion Sitka Spruce tree in southern Clatsop County, was severely damaged Sunday. Known as the Seaside Spruce or the Klootchy Creek Giant, the 206-foot-tall tree had shared the title of the country's largest Sitka spruce with another one in Washington's Olympic National Park. It split 75 feet from the ground."
Ok, so maybe that wasn't the most devastating consequence of the storm, but it's still sad...
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