Sunset in Seattle

After two days of heavy rains that have flooded local farms, a beautiful sunset.

Sunset, March 1, 2022

We had some of the heaviest rain I’ve seen in the Seattle area over the weekend. There is flooding along many rivers. We live in a rural area, and farms and roads are under varying amounts of water today.

How had was it? The creek below our house was a river. Flood stage is 4000 cubic feet per second of water (4000cfps); the flood waters peaked at almost double that, 7600cfps.

The creek/river split itself north of our place, as shown in this drone photo I took this afternoon. The secondary river is flowing through fields west of us:

Flooding along South Prairie Creek

It was far worse further downstream; farms were flooded from one side of the valley to the other, and the highway was closed for a good chunk of the day.

The good news is that these farm fields benefit from the nutrients that the flood waters leave behind. I wasn’t able to get into the areas where flooding was the worst; I hope the damage wasn’t extreme. We’ll know more tomorrow.