# It's been blowing since Tuesday **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155 "2018-12-15T03:14:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/21 "2018-12-20T21:09:46Z")
From Whatcom Scanner Report: 15 mins Smith & Everson Goshen, tree fell in car. No injuries. 30 mins There was a tree across the freeway southbound before Guide Meridian 26 mins Garrison Rd. near E. Badger, pole down with lines still attached, blocking roadway. 1 hr PSE being advised of WTA bus with power lines caught around bus’ bike rack. 1 hr Bradley Rd, Lynden - Roof blew off mobile home, is blowing around. 1 hr E. Badger & Nooksack Rd. Small building blew onto roadway. And so on… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/22 "2018-12-20T21:22:35Z")
[I shot some video out the window](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DigitalHollowIndianabat-small.gif). ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/23 "2018-12-20T23:54:38Z")
LOL! I heard on the news that a gust was recorded at Mount Baker (up **Johnny L.A.'s** way) at 117 MPH. Down here in Tacoma, they’ve been in the 30’s. The winds died down about 1:00 and are now picking up a little now. That video you linked of the waves crashing into the car deck of the ferry is impressive, Johnny. Those poor employees getting drenched! Wow! What surprised me, though, was the amount of rust on the Hyak’s bulkheads. I’ve been riding Washington ferries all my life and have never seen that. The Hyak might be due for a visit to a drydock soon. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/24 "2018-12-21T00:04:11Z")
> [@Hopeful\_Crow](#): > > That video you linked of the waves crashing into the car deck of the ferry is impressive, Johnny. I just tried to post a couple of videos to Imjur. I shot them this afternoon at the beach. Unfortunately, Imjur limits videos to 30 seconds. One is 0:34 and the other is 0:44. Sorry. In any case, the waves were crashing, water was coming over the sea wall, there are logs on the road – which is covered with water, and a house on the corner is flooded up to the front door. I read a report earlier of a car trapped in the water down toward the state park. We wondered how it wound up in the bay, but from the looks of the shore up this way, it may have been stranded on the road. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/25 "2018-12-21T04:27:15Z")
OK, [here is an article with pics](https://www.thenorthernlight.com/2018/12/20/thursday-storm-batters-birch-bay-drive/). The scene is Birch Bay Drive and Harborview Road, a short walk from our house. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/26 "2018-12-21T07:03:16Z")
My friend has a trailer in Birch Bay. Her place is ok, but the pictures she has been posting have been pretty crazy. It was bad all day in Vancouver. I live in a residential neighbourhood with lots of big trees, no big ones down but many branches on the roads. The wind actually interupted my class today, the power lines and the creaking of hydro poles made everyone stop and stare out the window. I actually opted not to go shopping tonight, I never thought I would see the day when I hurried home because of wind. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/27 "2018-12-21T16:43:24Z")
Did you see what the wind & waves did to White Rock Pier? Very sad. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/28 "2018-12-21T16:55:36Z")
I did not. Got pics? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/29 "2018-12-21T17:44:43Z")
My daughter has a friend who’s a Customer Service rep for Tacoma Public Utilities. He was taking an outage call yesterday when the building … lost power. They weren’t down for very long, but apparently it didn’t occur to anyone that the public utilities building would need a backup system. (There may not be many benefits to living in Tacoma, but TPU is definitely one of them. I’ve lived here most of my life, and the longest outage I can recall involved a substation failure and lasted perhaps five hours. Usual downtime is under an hour. Oh, and we have an alternative to Comcast, neener neener neener.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/30 "2018-12-21T18:33:00Z")
[https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article223395810.html](https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article223395810.html) At the 25 second mark, you can see damage to the clock tower at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Apparently the winds in Bellingham gusted to 70 mph. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/31 "2018-12-21T18:36:44Z")
Seems odd, but I kinda miss the 60-70 mph windstorms. Gets windy in Colorado from time to time, but never like that. Scary as hell when you’ve got 250 foot Douglas Firs wobbling around and tapping on the windows, but awesome at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/32 "2018-12-21T18:54:45Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Seems odd, but I kinda miss the 60-70 mph windstorms. Mrs. L.A. and I both lived in the Mojave Desert. Our house up here has a nice big window in front. I was watching the leaves and debris blow at a high rate of speed up the street (our street is perpendicular to the shore) and said to Mrs. L.A., ‘Needs tumbleweeds.’ ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/33 "2018-12-21T23:55:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I did not. Got pics? Better - [moving pictures](https://www.citynews1130.com/2018/12/20/rescue-operation-underway-at-least-one-person-trapped-on-white-rock-pier/)! ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/34 "2018-12-22T00:28:24Z")
There was a beachside restaurant in Birch Bay that the winds and waves were particularly hard on. All the bayside windows got smashed out and the building quickly was knee deep in water. The videos [here](https://komonews.com/news/local/birch-bay-floods-during-wind-storm) are pretty astonishing, especially all that water, with chairs and bar stools carried along with it, streaming out the front door as if a river was flowing through it. Apparently, the folks who own the restaurant had recently opened it after months of hard work getting the place ready. Sure feel bad for them. > [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Seems odd, but I kinda miss the 60-70 mph windstorms. Gets windy in Colorado from time to time, but never like that. Scary as hell when you’ve got 250 foot Douglas Firs wobbling around and tapping on the windows, but awesome at the same time. It doesn’t seem like winter in the Pacific Northwest without a good November/December windstorm or two. I kind of look forward to them. Of course, in the nearly sixty years I’ve been here, I’ve never suffered any damage or even a prolonged power outage from them. I’m sure my attitude would change if that were the case. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/35 "2018-12-22T16:31:36Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Better - [moving pictures](https://www.citynews1130.com/2018/12/20/rescue-operation-underway-at-least-one-person-trapped-on-white-rock-pier/)! Wow. White Rock is about 4 miles directly north from here. > [@Hopeful\_Crow](#): > > There was a beachside restaurant in Birch Bay that the winds and waves were particularly hard on. All the bayside windows got smashed out and the building quickly was knee deep in water. The videos [here](https://komonews.com/news/local/birch-bay-floods-during-wind-storm) are pretty astonishing, especially all that water, with chairs and bar stools carried along with it, streaming out the front door as if a river was flowing through it. Apparently, the folks who own the restaurant had recently opened it after months of hard work getting the place ready. Sure feel bad for them. Wow again. That place is always closing and reopening. In the last iteration, we sat for 10 minutes and were never even brought water, so we left. Haven’t been back. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155/36 "2018-12-23T05:35:29Z")
[Facebook video](https://www.facebook.com/brandon.debruin/videos/2121128097908103/). The seaward lane of Birch Bay drive is obliterated. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-blowing-since-tuesday/826155.md?page=1)