Re: [Paddlewise] Local Forecast

Bradford R. Crain wrote:
> Thought you might enjoy our latest Oregon Coast weather. (Dave Kruger,
> do you still have internet service in Astoria?)

Not then.  Do now (three days later).  Summary of how it went here:

We are in the center of the wind damage here, but have not had much flooding.

Here is the summary I have been sending out, sans bad words:

Town got beat to pieces by the wind.  Hit the Daily Astorian web site for 
photos.  Never had a blow like this before.  80-100 mph winds in town, as 
__recorded__ at several locations, not estimated.  Lotta houses lost roofs, 
partial or total. About 1/5th of houses had roofing damage.  Lots of houses 
with trees on them.  Big pole barns crushed, etc.  About half the large 
spruces in town are down.  Lots of glass blown out downtown.  Major 
flooding near Westport, OR.  Still got 4 feet of water on I-5 at Chehalis; 
  Oregonian says the trucking loss is about $4,000,000/day.

Power gone here from 4 am Mon to 2 pm today (Thurs).  Many areas of town 
still without power, and most outlying areas also.  Wind took out the major 
feeder to town along Youngs Bay (100 foot poles, about 40 of them), and did 
damage to main BPA trunk to this area.  All phone service in/out of the 
area, even between local towns, down because the optical fiber ring was cut 
in four places.  Just got LD phone service last night; ditto cell service. 
   I think the cell people were using the same fiber link.

We lost a few shingles and a fence pole.  No big deal for us.  Many others 
in town not so lucky.  During the worst of it, Fred Meyer and Safeway kept 
their doors open for nonperishable food items; a few gas stations in town 
on generators pumped small rations of gas so folks could go get food.  We 
parsed out hot showers (gas hot water heater) to the neighborhood and 
relatives; we let folks from Becky's work use our toilet (they had an 
electric sewer pump at EM, so no #2 use!!!).  Guy across the street shared 
out his generator so we lost only a little of our frozen food.  Folks down 
here worked together and showed a lot of pluck.

But, the big bummer was I did not get a lick of work done on my boat!

-- 
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR
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