November 19, 2006

Local weather

This last storm was not as bad as the others. We are still digging out though. Here are a couple of pictures of what we had to deal with recently. Here is the main road heading from Bellingham to Mt. Baker:
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This tree was leaning across the road for two days before highway crews and arborists could get it removed. It was leaning across telephone lines on the left and the high-tension feeder lines on the right. With all the rain it was a lovely combination. Here is a local creek running several feet above normal:
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It is normally a mild trickle, it is now flooding people's yards. Here is a road near our house. I got out of the car to try to move some of the wood off the road and saw that the power line was still lying on the ground.
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What caught my eye was the number of wire splices in the wire that was lying on the ground -- I counted seven of them. I walked up and down the road a bit and saw that most other sections had either none or just one. I would guess that this section has been broken before...
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The seventh splice was up on the other pole and I had the sun in back so couldn't get a good photo. There are eight splices now. Posted by DaveH at November 19, 2006 2:36 PM
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