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Hellastorm - Thursday, December 11, 2014
It's been literally raining all day. By the time the rain is supposed to let up tomorrow morning, it will have been raining non-stop for a 24 hour period.
Worst storm here in 10 years, the meteorologists say. On Twitter, remarks about #hellastorm, #rainpocalypse and #stormageddon are trending.
Pictures have circulated showing areas in San Francisco, San Mateo and San Bruno with cars sitting in water up to the headlights. Down in Silicon Valley, though the downpour is constant, our drainage systems seem to be keeping up. (Bless you, civil engineers.) The worst flooding I saw was this morning along Central Expressway in Sunnyvale, where the road dipped and there was a foot and a half of water covering most of the road, i.e. relatively not too bad.
Is this what a normal day in Portland is like?
Worst storm here in 10 years, the meteorologists say. On Twitter, remarks about #hellastorm, #rainpocalypse and #stormageddon are trending.
Pictures have circulated showing areas in San Francisco, San Mateo and San Bruno with cars sitting in water up to the headlights. Down in Silicon Valley, though the downpour is constant, our drainage systems seem to be keeping up. (Bless you, civil engineers.) The worst flooding I saw was this morning along Central Expressway in Sunnyvale, where the road dipped and there was a foot and a half of water covering most of the road, i.e. relatively not too bad.
Is this what a normal day in Portland is like?