Funny old world at times!

Last Thursday and yesterday have seen huge amounts of rainfall in this part of Southern Oregon.  In fact it was a swipe from the massive storm that was featured in a recent Climate Crocks article, from which one can read:

Meteorologist Paul Douglas has more:

I’m seeing some signs of a potentially historic storm for portions of the western USA between Friday and Wednesday of next week as a series of very moist storms push inland from the Pacific. I expect some flash flooding (and river flooding) for the San Francisco Bay Area, but the most severe flooding (and mountain snows) will take place from Marin county into the mountains of northern California and the Coastal/Cascade range of Oregon.

The ECMWF model, which seems to be doing the best job overall in this new weather-on-steroids environment, prints out some 16-20″ rainfall amounts over northern California and southern/western Oregon by Sunday; two surges: one Friday, a second front pushing in Sunday. WSI’s high-res RPM model confirms this as well, which increases my confidence level. The ECMWF model prints out 4-5” for San Francisco, but 8-10” for Marin county, just north of SFO.

The driveway from our road to the house, about a quarter-of-a-mile long, within 300 feet crosses a creek that flows right across our property.  Most of the time it’s a quiet, idyllic place for a dog to play.

But when the volume of water reaches the sorts of proportions that we have seen in the last 48 hours, it turns into a nasty torrent.

Not only that, the driveway across the creek relies on a bridge.  Rather, it did rely on a bridge. But Mother Nature, as always, had her say!

Most, if not all, the wooden support structure that held up the steel platform has been swept away.

So all the well-laid plans for the week-end now on hold as we play Marooned!  At least our dogs are taking an active interest …

And the name of the creek?

BUMMER CREEK

I kid you not!

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