SFR Legit PNW Hurricane on the way

Sorta fishing-related
Cabezon said:
Very interesting to read all your experiences on this storm around the PNW. At my homestead in the Olympia area, a total nothing burger. Winds were zero to low single digits before midnight and increased to the teens with gusts to low 20's after midnight. Our power blinked a few times in the early evening but never enough to even turn my computer off. I suspect that the fluctuations were impacts of the winds in the foothills on the transmission lines from Eastern Washington. We normally are without power after these sorts of storms so I have sympathy for anyone who woke up this morning cold and in the dark.
But it has been interesting offshore. These are 4AM data from a buoy about 35+ miles due west of Westport, right on the continental slope.
The average wind speeds reached 37 knots (42 mph). Unfortunately, the buoy did not measure the speed of wind gusts.
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Those winds were driven by a drop in atmospheric pressure to 29.11" of mercury (= 986mbar). According to Cliff Mass' blog, that is the magnitude of low pressure associated with a category 1 hurricane.
The winds have kicked up massive offshore waves. The wave heights as of 4AM reach 33.8' and rising.
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It would not have been a fun night to be offshore.
Steve
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I rely on NOAA's National Data Buoy Center observations quite a bit for go/no-go decisions, my local buoy was nothing out of the ordinary for stormy weather given the wind direction, but some of the offshore ones are impressive. Take buoy 46005 (300 miles W of Aberdeen WA), it ended up near the eye of the storm yesterday (satellite picture from the NWS below), last reported wind gusts of up to 65 knots and atmos pressure near 28 inches! (~948 mbar!), station have not reported since then, last wave pictures from the buoy below, wonder if buoy survived intact or someone may report pieces of it in the "Strange, weird or odd or whatever beach finds thread…" !

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Buoy 46132 off Vancouver Island seems to have taken the cake with gusts of up to 88 knots (101 mph) and waves up to 34 feet high near the bottom of the barometer,
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At home some chain saw action this morning on mid sized branches, some large trees down in the neighborhood, this Rivian seem to have weathered the brunt of a street light pole and large tree pretty well.
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There's another storm system forming on Friday, forecasted to bring South winds, hopefully calmer than this storm and that by then people have recovered from this one!

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Power went for a little over 2 hrs last night, no sign of damage in Gold Bar.
 
Man my gutters were absolutely plugged with debris. Took a walk after I finished cleaning up. One property looks like they lose at least six cedar trees as the ones leaning will need to come down.
SF

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Over here on the dry side, we had very little wind, just enough to rattle some rain against the east side of the house and swing a gate shute that I forgot to close. It was free leaf collection day, I had about 20 each 33 gallon bags on the sidewalk so I moved the old Subaru off the street and onto our STEEP driveway. Woke up to this:

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Since both my wife and I have slipped and fallen while shoveling the driveway, I dug out my handy dandy Korkers and went to work on WET snow.

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I almost donated these things, glad I saved them. The last time I wore these fishing was wading the Thompson in 2003.
 
We had power out from 8:30pm till 1am (Edmonds). Husband and I played backgammon by candlelight. Still no internet via comcast as of now, but cell data works. Yard is a mess-o-branches, but no full trees or damage this time.
Drove to my daughter's condo in Redmond to bring her a cooler with ice packs for her food, since power is still out on much of the eastside, but it was so cold inside her place that I hauled her home for the night!
Saw a couple trees on roofs over there, and most traffic signals were dark.
Oddly, Lake Ballinger was absolute glass when I drove past, but Lk WA 10 minutes away had 2' white caps 🤔
 
Renton Highlands was hit HARD. We lost power at 5:00pm Tuesday. Multiple trees were down across the only road in. 5 power poles leaning across the road. Many road closures nearby. Our power substation took a big hit. Finally got out a little bit ago. PSE said we will get power back Sunday. We have cell service (sorta) but no internet via Verizon. No one has power within 5 miles of our house.

Phone almost charged now.

On the positive side the Turkey in the freezer may thaw out in time for Thanksgiving.
 
Friday afternoon will be windy on Oregon, Washington coasts, but not bad further inland.
 
RCF said:
Renton Highlands was hit HARD. We lost power at 5:00pm Tuesday. Multiple trees were down across the only road in. 5 power poles leaning across the road. Many road closures nearby. Our power substation took a big hit. Finally got out a little bit ago. PSE said we will get power back Sunday. We have cell service (sorta) but no internet via Verizon. No one has power within 5 miles of our house.

Phone almost charged now.

On the positive side the Turkey in the freezer may thaw out in time for Thanksgiving.
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We have a house sitter at our place in Mercer Island...our power has been knocked out too, power is said to be restored by Saturday...everything is running on our Generac generator...
 
A few closing thoughts:

I did not remember how many stars there are. With no ambient due to the outages, I saw a lot more including a couple of shooting stars.

I am amazed how well I could see in total darkness.

One does not realize how drafty a house is until the candle is constantly flickering.

Amazing how much heat the body produces with one blanket on.

I have always thought that Verizon provided the best coverage. WRONG! At best, only 50% of the time did we have cell service and 20% of the time had internet access. Time for new carrier.

I am truly appreciative of the public and private service providers and how they work together restoring everything. This also applies to the fire and aid departments in the many ways and tasks they undertake.

I feel sorry for all the small restaurants for the financial hit they are taking. No income and throwing out all that food hurt them big time.

Still waiting for power. Next day or so...
 
RCF said:
A few closing thoughts:

I did not remember how many stars there are. With no ambient due to the outages, I saw a lot more including a couple of shooting stars.

I am amazed how well I could see in total darkness.

One does not realize how drafty a house is until the candle is constantly flickering.

Amazing how much heat the body produces with one blanket on.

I have always thought that Verizon provided the best coverage. WRONG! At best, only 50% of the time did we have cell service and 20% of the time had internet access. Time for new carrier.

I am truly appreciative of the public and private service providers and how they work together restoring everything. This also applies to the fire and aid departments in the many ways and tasks they undertake.

I feel sorry for all the small restaurants for the financial hit they are taking. No income and throwing out all that food hurt them big time.

Still waiting for power. Next day or so...
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If you want to help your restaurants out, consider buying a gift card with dinner! A bit of extra revenue now might go a long way.

From a long suffering small restaurant chef 😅😅
 
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