Art & Inspiration Ahoy there PNWesterners

Hope everyone is staying afloat, been pretty ugly out there huh!
Better blow up your dingy's, there's more coming I hear.
Happy holidays to all you hot rod hooligans.
Doug

 

hasn't really been that bad here for rain so far this year. Happy holidays to you too Doug. I gotta buy a turkey tomorrow, and start making some pies and stuff, we are having a big too-do (14 people) at our house this year, and I am the chief Christmas cook.

 

Thanks, have a good one yourself. It has been wild down here. Tornadoes, closed main roads. I have my life vest ready.

 

Over 5" of water in my shop! :0

First time in 10 years!!!

I'm sure glad that the engines and transmissions were on a pallet and the good tools were on the bench.

I'll have to go through the office and catalog the casualties later.

 

Hell, even here in the high desert we are getting more rain than we are accustomed to seeing.
Been raining heavy at my place all day, and 6 miles West, in town, plenty of snow.

The ski & board bums are in hog heaven.

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Bump for the waterlogged.
PDX got hit pretty hard today, high winds, heaviest rainfall in 19 years.
How's everybody doing, anybody lose any trees?
Happy holidays to all.
Edit
This just in: more of the same coming.

 

Wet, windy, and two feet of snow here. Just another day at the office in La Pine.

 

Too much rain, especially compared to last year. The backyard is like a sponge, and some water has made it in under the side "man door" of the shop/garage. Not as bad a a couple of weeks ago when the rivers were cresting and some flooded the lowlands/farmland. We're going to have a WET Christmas, just like Bing Crosby used to sing about. Happy Christmas, and Merry New Year to all you dyslexics. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Got a little crazy this afternoon with the wind. Lucky no real damage. Its settled down for now. Merry Christmas everyone.

 

I used an industrial dehumidifier, shop vac and ALL of my heaters to get just over 20 gallons of water out of my office carpet!!! :0

 

We missed the wind you guys got down South. Glad I live on top of the hill no worries of flooding here and if it does all you low landers are SOL. raeY weN yppaH samtsirhC yrreM for the truly dyslexic

 

^^^^is it bad if i was able to read that?^^^

 

And back at 'ya

 

...you have carpet?????

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got about an inch throughout my shop a week ago,
just enough to need a small submersible pump to get rid of most of it,
then the big wet-vac to dry it up.
no real damage, mostly just pulled everything out from under the benches,
take inventory, dry it all up and put it all back.

the floor is cleaner than it's been in years

 

200 miles north of most of you, and its rained quite a bit less than normal this year. We had a couple hours of snow one afternoon last week, but it was gone by the end of the day.

 

That F-1 twister in Battle Ground last week may be a little one by Oklahoma trailer park standards but it sat down 2 blocks behind my house, jumped over the top of me and sat back down about 6 or 7 blocks away and did some damage before it evaporated. I don't think they give tornados names but we locals refer to it as Hillary. Ill take the rain if I get to chose but send the wind elsewhere.

 

Well now, who fell on their ass this morning?
Ain't this just great, could barely get off the front porch.
PDX is a winter notso wonderful land today, yesterdays' s snow is now covered in ice.
News says not to even bother getting on the roads, won't start thawing out till noon.
Predicting 36 degrees today with more rain.
Be careful out there!

 

My wife ran out yesterday morning in the freshly fallen snow to get me an extra hot, grande, sugar-free vanilla, skinny, mocha at the local Tzarbucks and took out a row of bushes on her way home in front of the subdivision with her jeep. No one saw it so ill probably blame it on teenagers but it does prove a point, North westerners (for the most part) drive like crap on snow and ice. There're pretty good in the rain as long as you stay off the slabtown super-slab at 4:30PM, I've seen zombie apocalypse flicks that are less scary and gruesome.