Saturday, January 14, 2006

Seattle rain: 27th straight day

Seattle had our 26th straight day of rain yesterday and we're now less than a week short of the 1953 record of 33 rainy days. Daily rainfall records have already fallen in Seattle.

The biggest problem is that the saturated landscape can't hold much more water. "What we need is a reprieve," Tony Fantello, maintenance and operations manager for Pierce County Water Programs in Tacoma, told The News Tribune.


I wrote a piece in praise of the rain a few days ago. However, I wouldn't mind a "sunbreak" or two (our term for no rain and few clouds). On the other hand, we've gone this far. Let's break the record and really have something to remember and kvetch about.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jack, are the highways coming apart? Geez. No wonder the weather is on your mind.

Keekee Brummet said...

Not the ones I drive on so much, but the mountain pass sorts of ones...highways near unstable hills (and they're all unstable right now, being mainly mud). Nearer to our house, the train tracks that run along Puget Sound have been periodicaly--what is the word?, mudslid? mud-slided? Covered with mud from the disintegrating hills.