Someone build the Ark....

So after weird record snowfalls, including a bizarre one Sunday night, where coworkers and I were caught unaware (and even had to climb on our work roof to clean off the satelitte dish that feeds us the wires) now comes the rain... and rain... and rain.

"More than 30,000 people were told to leave their flood-endangered homes today in Western Washington as rain and high winds lashed much of the state, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides and high water that could reach record levels.

Rising waters prompted state highway crews to close a 20-mile stretch of Interstate 5 around Chehalis on this evening.

“This is going to be a memorable flood event,” said Andy Haner, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Seattle.

“Because of the heavy, heavy rain we’ve got urban flooding, we’ve got mudslides, we’ve got water over the road, we’ve got ditches full,” Bellingham police Lt. Rick Sucee told The Associated Press. “Small creeks are now rivers.”

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So I've been sloshing around in the hilltop. Thank god I live on higher ground where everything runs downward. Only a few weeks ago I was lamenting the fact that I did live on a hill that they did not salt and was one big urban snowhill.

Some coworkers have been evacuated from their homes in Orting and Fife. Both areas are lowlands. Mike said on his way home I-5 is starting to flood in a lower area.

Maybe I should have invested in a boat. I may need it next to get around here.