Wow, What Weather We Have Had

Well if you haven't hear or if you are not in the area, what a crazy weekend and beginning to this week it has been. It all started on Saturday morning wee woke at 6:00 Am to snow it seemed a little early in the season it only being the 1st of December but it had snowed on Tuesday but not enough to stick around it just fell from the sky but it did;t stick to anything. Well this snow was sticking and it was falling and sticking fast.



We had a birthday party to go to it was Kierens Birth Day party Toby's cousin we couldn't miss it.



By the time we came home from Aunt Paula's house we had 5 inches of snow. Around 10 O'clock Saturday night the snow had turned to rain and we thought that it was the end and that by morning the snow would be history. Boy were we ever wrong. When we woke on Sunday morning it was snowing harder than the day before by the end of it all we had received over a foot of snow.







Late Sunday night it tuned to rain and that is when the craziness began.
Monday morning I was out early shoveling trenches in our yard to divert the rain and snow drainage away from our septic tank as it was starting to overflow, YUCK!!! After being outside after only 2 minutes in a thick jacket i was soaked to the bone. Poor Scotch Dog tried to hide from the rain under the deck in the back yard but the wind just blew the water right onto him, poor thing. Our closest neighbor had her basement flooded with three feet of water and her yard and the driveway leading directly to our house was a lake. I wish I had taken a picture but I don't think it would have turned out I only have one with snow.



This whole area where the deep snow is, is where the water was it was about 1.5 feet deep in the driveway and more on either side.



This is one of our neighbor's houses after the water started to recede a little. This Gray house sits right next to our driveway and the water was in their basement. There is a small creek to the left of the house that under normal weather conditions you would not even know it was there.



This is the creek bed to the west of the house above. This is about 20 yards from our driveway. Just to the right (not shown) the road is starting to go down into an embankment. I walked past it today on the way to the corner store to see how bad it had gotten since yesterday, the dirt is completely washed away from under the pavement and the road is closed at our driveway to Clear Creek Road until further notice.



This is the driveway right before ours there are two homes behind the white home that were fully engulfed in water.



This is a picture of the Marine gate of Bangor Naval Base look to the north, it does not do it justice. If you could have only seen it. There is a large storm drain outlet just south of the gate that was shooting water out as if it were a fire hose. Just imagine this drainage outlet is a four foot by 2 foot outlet and it was spewing water out at an astonishing rate.



This is a single wide manufactured home located on the west side of Clear Creek Rd across the street from our corner store. In all I believe that at least a square half mile of property was under water in this area. It was incredible, I have never seen anything like it. If you think that this was Clear Creek that did this you, are wrong. It was just a small stream that feeds into Clear Creek downstream a little ways closer to Silverdale that did this damage. If you were to see Clear Creek at Mountain View on Monday you would have thought that it was the small stream. Clear Creek itself did not crest its banks hardly at all.

Well I will keep you all poosted on the damge as we are still getting hit with some pretty hard winds.