Water, Water Everywhere

[solarbird]

Remember that lake in the parking lot in Woodinville I mentioned from last Sunday? Here's what it looked like:


Woodinville Park and Ride

And here's the surprisingly decent second photograph I took - I wasn't really looking for art, I just clicked, but it came out well:


Flatiron Lake

And then, of course, yesterday, which prompted yesterday's post about zomg SO MUCH rain - we're within striking distance of the record for a January, if today turns out like yesterday. But we got a huge sun break in the afternoon, so after I got through yesterday's research papers, I went out just to get out into it, and took the camera.

The part-time creek that runs along the north edge of our property wasn't just active:


Murkworks North Creek

It was, as you can see in these movies, particularly in the large one, it was flooding its tiny banks:
Tiny movie, Murkworks North Creek - .4M
Much larger movie, Murkworks North Creek - 9.1M

The flow rate was pretty high, too:
Murkworks North Creek, stable shot - 2.7M

And we had two other spontaneous wanna-be creeks springing up, too!
Water overflow, driveway - 3.3M
Water overflow, south yard, near house - 6.6M

The road leading to our house has drainage on both sides; the north side is leafy and not much like a creek normally, but certainly looked like one yesterday.
Drainage on 184^TH - 4.9M

I walked down the hill a bit, to 180^TH, where there's this large shared garden where a creek that's probably fed by mine as well as others runs I think full-time, and it was high, but not over bank at all:


Deep Water Stream, 180^TH

And the intersection of that stream with another drainage ditch/stream was also running very high.


Red Reeds in Deep Water

That source had a good flow rate, too:


Cascade

And here's a movie with sound so you can hear it:
Surprising water, near 180^TH

The light was very, very nice, too. Right time of day, right kind of sky, very dramatic clouds. You'll be seeing some of these pictures soon. Here's the first of that set; I was actually trying to take a picture of an airplane, but I guess it was too far away for the camera. Still, the sky has some drama.


January Clouds over Lake Washington

Monday's mile: 1.0, taking those pictures.
Miles out of Hobbiton: 586.2
Miles out of Rivendell: 126.3
Miles to Lothlórien: 340

Comments

[quen-elf.livejournal.com]

Send some of your rain over here! According to a radio interview with somebody from a water company this year, we've had hugely less rain the normal, meaning that typical reservoirs are 30% full (normally 90% at this time). It would take rain 60% *above* normal levels from now until summer to bring the situation back to normal...

They probably have it under control even so, but still, not good.

[solarbird]

Down the hill, we had a landslide! Not a very big one, but it did cover the transit lane and they had to close two lanes for the cleanup.

There've been landslides all over the place. The rail line north has had several, and keeps getting closed. The big highway west, I-90, has had several avalanches (snow and soil - it's a mountain pass and gets fuckloads of feet of snow a year) and keeps getting closed too. Last weekend, there were two at once that cut off a big chunk of cars - that was kinda neat.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Haven't you seen the photos of the ankle-deep (in shoes, yet) water in my back yard?