Today...
Spent the day down in Seattle getting the last of the furniture out of Mom and Dad's house -- the people who staged the house wanted to use a few of their tables.
It has been a day filled with Fnu -- Murphy didn't quite visit but just hung around the general area and supervised.
Rent a U-Haul truck. Generally good but this one had an engine that misfired all the time and it went through a bit over 20 gallons of gas for 130 mile trip -- this is about 6.5 miles/gallon for a truck that should be getting ten to twelve -- I have used the same model (14 foot box truck) and the same trip (home to Seattle and back) several other times and always got the higher gas mileage. On top of that, only one channel on the radio worked and that speaker was broken so the sound was awful.
Get down there and am
greeted by this:
Rain batters downtown Seattle as a storm moves through.
SEATTLE - While Western Washington got a good soaking of rain, a powerful storm slammed into the Oregon with winds topping 90 mph.
During the Thursday evening rush hour in Seattle, rain and standing water backed up traffic. On Mercer Street, a BMW and another vehicle were swamped by high water. There were no reports of injuries.
In West Seattle, a 15-by-20-foot sinkhole opened. Another sinkhole in Woodinville has closed part of 132nd Ave. NE.
Five landslides have been reported in various parts of Seattle.
The storm drains were so overwhelmed that the driveway drain was backing up and flooding into the garage. And the worst of the storm is due tomorrow morning...
I get back on the road (helacious traffic -- lots of accidents but didn't see any major ones), stop off at the Burlington Outback Restaurant and get back on the road again.
Pull into my town, walk into the store to get a couple of beers for the evening, pay for them and --bink-- - the lights go out. Start driving home and there is a tree across the road.
I finally get home (I got my truck and when I got back to the tree, a neighbor was there with a chainsaw clearing -- helped him for ten minutes or so) and, of course, I am now
Generator Blogging again.
And, to top it all off, the skys are cloudy and the light polution from Abbotsford is to great to
see any of the Aurora that may be
happening tonight...
Ya gotta love the modern industrial age; candlelight and warm fireplaces are nice but it is also nice to have the internet and refrigerated, safe food. And we have the freedom to choose.
Posted by DaveH at December 14, 2006 10:16 PM