Rain Rain - Go Away

To add insult to injury...
All that Christmas snow (the 2-3feet) has been melting and there has been a constant drizzle for the last week, so the rivers are rising and are currently a few feet below flood stage.

On the news this morning, the Dept of Emergency Management announced that the Weather Service now says that between Tuesday morning and Thursday evening (basically 3 days) we are supposed to have 7 inches of rain. SEVEN INCHES!!!! in less than 3 days! Aiamos!!!! I didn't go to Univeristy of Oregon! I'm not a duck! make it go away and come back some other day.

I noticed this evening while driving home that they already have the barricades out for several places on Delameter that will either warn of water over the roadway and or close the roads. The fields across from Bolars are about half full. (The river levels at Castle Rock are supposed to be about 5 feet over flood stage, but not as bad as it was in 1996 or threaten the dikes' stability.) So when they close Delameter below me getting the kids to school and me to work may be fairly challenging. I may have to do the 40 mile detour to take my kids to school. This all depends on whether it floods above me (a couple places where the Delameter Creek is pretty nasty or down at the bottom of Coal Creek) because I can't think of any other ways that won't be flooded. (keep your fingers crossed!!!)