PNW Flood Watch - Dec 8-12, 2025
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Replicant
Life of the Party
My bank on the lower Yak just crested. I normally need a 6 ft ladder to get down to the water. We are still a few days from our peak (Saturday), when we are just touching a major flood level. Still probably not like 2009 when two thirds of my property was under water. Reminiscing with my neighbor today. I was chasing after carp that were stranded in my horse pasture. His boys set up goose decoys and a blind. 
Lemonade......
Lemonade......
I have a buddy that lives in North Bend in the neighborhood south of exit 32. He's been on the road from Renton since 2pm. He ended up stuck in traffic on Snoqualmie Ridge Parkway, trying to get down to old-town Snoqualmie. No go there so he (and everyone else) got turned around and headed back up to the ridge. Not sure if he stopped and had dinner or not, but as of 10pm, his new goal is to get off the ridge onto I90 east to the casino exit, and go thru North Bend all the way out to truck town (exit 34), get on WB I90 and then take his exit 32 to get home. The goal is midnight. Crazy man.
My brother-in-law also lives in North Bend. He picked up their daughter at Sea-Tac and realized they weren't going to make it home. She has ankle surgery at 8:30am tomorrow in friggin Northgate area so he just booked a hotel up there. His wife is staying with her folks in the neighborhood up by trunk town, close to the Middle Fork, but 3 or 4 blocks away...and more importantly, up, from the river.
The slides are going to start happening now. Be safe out there. Don't drive unless you absolutely have to!
Breck
The Whisk(e)y Dick
Looks like Nessie is joining them!
How lucky ( or wise) you are to be on high ground
. There’s a whole lot of yellow on the 100 year map. Not gonna go well for quite a few people
Might need to deploy the official PNWFF helicopter to extract you? Good news that the projected Skagit crest has been dialed down.
You aren't missing anything. These events always remind me of how I chose the location of my headquarters. Our river valleys become an ugly mess this time of year. Fun to visit, but never live there.
I’d love to see any waterfall right now, and just seeing in person where all the water goes and how fast or slow it’s moving is actually really informative.
Saw this on another site. Tyee Marina in NE Tacoma.
Likely a combination of wood coming down the Puyallup plus the king tides.
SF
Likely a combination of wood coming down the Puyallup plus the king tides.
SF
It looks like the Skagit crested in Concrete at just below the record this morning
Best of luck to all of those in the flood zone, went through it several times during atmospheric river conditions when we lived coastside with the road out of town closed from flooding and trees down.
Meanwhile, not a whiff of snow here in the Cascades, this the temp when I got off the river yesterday. The businesses/employees who make a living off of snow season setting seriously worried with a two week forecast of temps remaining in the mid 50's/40's.
Meanwhile, not a whiff of snow here in the Cascades, this the temp when I got off the river yesterday. The businesses/employees who make a living off of snow season setting seriously worried with a two week forecast of temps remaining in the mid 50's/40's.
the_chemist
Life of the Party
That hill may be an island temporarily.
This.
Pictures/videos mostly do it for me for the general "here's what the river looks like" in flood situations. But for some reason a fully cranking waterfall is deeply fascinating to see/hear in person.
KOMO said it was 72 degrees in Yakima yesterday! So crazy. Glad it's cooler today!