Eggs Loki wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 4:09 pm
Gray, dreary, cold. Near freezing, but not cold enough so that the miserable rain outside can be pretty snow instead.
The forecast is for wintery temperatures for at least another week.
The seasons are acting like the seasons this year. Must be a conspiracy...
Add this to the "How wet is it?" thread. I was trying to upload a video but it isn't working. Here is a picture of the new river that flows behind my house and covers the road that allows me to get home.
Thank you. The road by my house is drivable now. I am going to check it out next week.
The building my office is in has power, but no septic and the park doesn't want people on the road yet so it will be a little longer before I can go back.
On Dec 10 & 11 it rained so much that the levy broke near my house, trapping several people, hillsides slid near my work covering the road and wiping out the new waste treatment plant.
I was supposed to return home that day after an extended out for Thanksgiving. I got a text from my neighbor saying "The road is gone"
Everyone was accounted for. One neighbor helped an elderly lady out of her house which had flooded. She waded out in hip waiters. Locals got to work right away clearing roads and restoring power.
I went up the following Monday to deliver the mail. I still did not have access to my house, and the building I work in was running on a generator. It was strange to see, so much debris and mudslides.
The locals got to work pretty quickly clearing roads and restoring power. The hardest hit neighborhood where I live was entirely cut off from the rest of the valley from the river changing course. Even neighbors within the neighborhood were cut off from each other.
Supplies were helicoptered in about a week later for those needing fuel and some were helicoptered out. My neighbor gathered some things from my house and sent those down at the same time.
At the same time, the previous mountain town I lived in known as Holden Village was evacuating as well.
I have been working out of the city post office, sending mail uplake and experiencing what its like to work in a bigger office.
Neighbors can now walk in and out of their properties, and I got word yesterday that I can drive to my house. But there are still families at the end of the road that are cut off via driving, but they are homesteaders and are prepared to stay the winter if they need to.
This is officially my 4th evacuation.
I'm ready to live a quiet life and not go through these "adventures" anymore.
Also many of us are grateful, we faired quite well compared to the west side of the state where roads and homes were destroyed.
You can see my car in this one. Everything to the left of this picture faired quite normal-the hillside to the right where the fire burned is where the damage begins. The log behind my car is where the actual lake begins. My car is fine btw. And this is where I work
This is the front of the post office after things dried up a bit.
The road to the landing. It is already cleared, but they caution people from driving on it unless they are getting on a boat. There is someone that can also transport people to reduce to road use until it is more stable.