Typhoon Songda hitting WA, BC, OR today

[uppityperson]

It'll be a wild day on the coasts, and an interesting evening here in the WA. Time to go check for loose tarps and batten down the chickens. We're set for an extended outage, so no worries here. Good luck to my duer friends in the area, and to everyone. Next time don't wait until the last minute to buy batteries because stores only carry a limited amount. If I'm offline for a bit, catch you later.

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/10/todays-major-storm-difficult-forecast.html

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Stay safe!

I have family in Seattle, PT, and on Marrowstone Island, all report being prepared and hunkered down. I keep checking the feeds from Seattle TV. Yikes.


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[anamandujano]

2. Scary weather maps at link. Wind gusts possible 29-36 mph. Waves possible 28ft.

[uppityperson]

3. It'd be neat to be out on the coast. Winds 35-40, gusts 60s predicted where I live

Woohoo! Locking the chickens in early today.

[anamandujano]

13. Which coast on you on? I always wanted to move to the Oregon Coast.

[uppityperson]

14. I'm in WA, but not on the ocean. We just started getting some good gusts so may be offline

if we lose power and all. It's been very rainy and just now WHOOSH!

[anamandujano]

15. Good luck!

[uppityperson]

16. Thanks. It's here, pretty impressive and I'm glad I don't live in hurricane country.

[MFM008]

4. We're taking my mom

To a hotel for the night. Her house is surrounded by trees.
Everyone stay safe!

[aidbo]

5. we're getting the edges of it down here in Eugene.

gonna be a lot of leaves to pick up in the next few days

ETA: Stay Safe!

[icymist]

6. We're getting ready out here.

Pretty much just finished a small shelter for the generator if it's needed. Just pounding in the last tent stakes to hold it all down in that wind they're predicting. Got water, batteries, camping stove, wind up radio, a weeks worth of meds and cat food, Battery powered lanterns, carbon monoxide detector, tarps/duct tape in case a tree falls on the house,... we should be fine.

I'm watching the storm come toward us on windytv: https://www.windytv.com/?47.532,-122.574,7

Stay safe!!!

[uppityperson]

8. And you too, so fat it's meh over here beyond the rain. Thanks for the site, it

is helpful in seeing where the winds are coming from.

[icymist]

10. I like that site.

You can actually zoom in so close that you can see individual streets, mark that with a one click and then zoom back out, seeing the entire picture and the currents stats at that mark. It also does a forecast animation by clicking the bottom left play arrow (arrow pops up when the cursor hovers over it) enjoy. stay safe!

[suffragette]

7. The ground is soaked and many trees are still full.

Be safe, neighbor!

[uppityperson]

9. You too. It's been raining like heck but the winds are pretty meh so far

[suffragette]

12. Same here. Right now break from heavy rain, so calm before storm?

Been keeping an eye here for updates and when each area is being affected.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottSKOMO?p=s


Power flickered yesterday and neighborhood nearby was down for much of day, but was ok here. Hope it doesn't go out today.

[DesertRat]

11. Take care!