Washington State Flooding 12/2025

[garyhead]

Greetings all from the upper left-hand corner of the USA.  I'm seeing media worldwide coverage of the flooding here and thought I'd comment.  I, and my Alembic Family are high & dry!  I live at the edge of a 250' cliff overlooking Puget Sound.....so....no floodwaters here, no rivers nearby and I'm too high for a Tsunami.  Earthquake would be my bugaboo.  Anyway, the Christmas Tree Farm where I bought my tree last Tuesday is now under water!  So, it's not that far away from me.  The rain here this month has been Crazy!  It's also warm so whatever snow-pack we had is depleting adding to the torrential rain.  Thankfully the moon is waning.  I mention that because we also get flooding of Puget Sound in the low-lying areas during a full moon in the wet seasons.  The 'Wet Season" here is 8 months long!
Anyway, the custom double-neck stand for Goliath is on it's way here.  I'll post a photo of Goliath & Leviathan side-by-side.  Probably a first for Alembic Double-necks.  Merry Christmas to me!

[edwardofhuncote]

Glad to hear you and the collection are safe, Gary.


I was thinking about this the other day, and maybe,  maybe, maybe we discussed it sometime here... how many doubleneck Alembics are there? I think Hieronymous has what was purportedly the first, from 1975. I can think of maybe a half-dozen including the two you have and his. There is a Featured Custom called "Double Duty" with two bass necks. I'm sure there are more but there can't be that many more.

[garyhead]

Yes I was aware of Harry's and of Double Duty and one more.  Pearl Of Angel 96 Series II double-neck 4 fretted + 6 fretless belonging to Hartmut Engel in Germany.  I see he hasn't posted here since 2012.

[BeenDown139]

i used to live in sunny seattle where we had probably 100 terms for rain - low clouds, heavy mist, the pineapple express, etc & so forth.  got used to doing everything out in the rain - washing the car, mowing the lawn, picking up after the dog (lotasa fun in the rain.  bring a spatula!).  the good new was it hardly snowed and the daily temperature range stayed between 49 and 51 (fahrenheit, that is). perfect for going everywhere in a gortex hat (AKA seattle sombrero) and full flannel.  kinda wish i'd never left. 

[Songdog]

My house is at about 400' elevation and not on top of a cliff that might slump in the wet. But I found myself stuck on the wrong side of the river and the artist I was scheduled to do a studio session with had to cancel it before everyone but the bass player showed up. The highway out reopened about 15 minutes after he did that 

I can think of a couple Christmas tree farms near me that might have been pretty soggy. Actually, I drove past one yesterday that definitely was. One of the bigger floods we've had locally; at least no one drowned (as far as I know) like in another flood about 1990. (Don't drive into a river running over the road, just saying.)

[peoplechipper]

No flooding in Vancouver B.C. area yet (that I've heard) but the ground is saturated and much more rain is gonna be mudslides and other such fun...

[David Houck]

Hoping everyone stays safe and dry.

[peoplechipper]

I was wrong; there's flooding out Abbotsford way in the farm country...

[Songdog]

And more rain forecast in the Puget Sound region this week!

[David Houck]

Saw in the news there are mandatory evacuations.

[pauldo]

Hope everyone is being safe.  Ma Nature isn’t one to play with.

[garyhead]

…..aaaaannnnndddd the power is now out.  Died at 2AM. Had to fumble about for the Cpap machine that has battery backup. Will be light in 2 hours. Bet there will be a lot of wind damage. North of Seattle a naval air base recorded 71mph gusts. Mt Hood in Oregon clocked 138mph!  This windstorm will cross the entire country this week.

[edwardofhuncote]

I hate wind. I've only had 56 years to develop this attitude, but of all weather conditions, that is the one. Maybe it's the result of being victimized by it so many times? Had to run from tornadoes, had a tree put right through the middle of my house from a derecho and spent that July living in my camper, a week of it out of power. I don't know, but nothing makes me quite so anxious as to hear wind... makes me ill as a snake.


Y'all hunker down out there.

[garyhead]

Well Greg…..like the Subaru commercial says… “Share The Love”. The storm should hit the east coast Thursday night / Friday morning. It will be dumping snow across the Midwest all the way to the northeast.  Been dealing with this rain now for two weeks. All my weather station detectors have gone silent. We haven’t even had enough sun to get the solar chargers to charge the batteries.  Looks like the outage in my neighborhood affects 1009 homes. But there are 100’s of thousands here in Western Washington / Oregon out.

[David Houck]

Currently, our local forecast shows the wind arriving around 3:00 tomorrow afternoon, gusting up to the low 30's, bringing a half inch of rain, staying above freezing, and dissipating Friday afternoon around 5:00.

Picked up some fallen branches from the driveway just yesterday from the most recent winds.