Sammamish River Trail
Jan. 5th, 2015 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenchurchI figured I hadn't posted a photo of the Trail in awhile, so it was about time I did! In actuality, I was originally thinking of driving down to Snoqualmie to get a photo of Snoqualmie Falls, but that didn't quite work out. We've been getting record rainfall around here lately and all the rivers are running quite high, meaning the Falls are pretty spectacular right now... I ran into a bit of a snag though, in that most of the roads between here and there were closed due to flooding today! (And I'm really not kidding, I could have gotten there, but only by going around the long way. There were at least three closures along the direct route that I know of.)
So, instead I drove over to the Sammamish River Valley and went for a nice long walk along the trail there. The rain we've had has been part of what's called a Pineapple Express... a storm front that basically blasts us from the general vicinity of Hawaii (one local meteorologist once described as being like someone was standing on the Big Island and pointing a *huge* firehose at the Puget Sound area). This has the side effect of raising the temperature (which also causes problems because it tends to melt the snow we already have, adding even more runoff to the rain-swollen rivers), so it was in the mid-50s when I started my walk... but the wind was so bad, I was VERY glad I'd worn my winter coat (seriously, it felt like I was walking into a wall a few times).
So, here it is, a very swollen Sammamish River... definitely up over its banks, but not in any danger of cresting the berms on either side. I don't know how easy it is to tell, but it was incredibly blustery with roiling clouds overhead (to give you a bit of an idea, I took this photo at about 2:30 in the afternoon).
Crossposted from my Livejournal.
So, instead I drove over to the Sammamish River Valley and went for a nice long walk along the trail there. The rain we've had has been part of what's called a Pineapple Express... a storm front that basically blasts us from the general vicinity of Hawaii (one local meteorologist once described as being like someone was standing on the Big Island and pointing a *huge* firehose at the Puget Sound area). This has the side effect of raising the temperature (which also causes problems because it tends to melt the snow we already have, adding even more runoff to the rain-swollen rivers), so it was in the mid-50s when I started my walk... but the wind was so bad, I was VERY glad I'd worn my winter coat (seriously, it felt like I was walking into a wall a few times).
So, here it is, a very swollen Sammamish River... definitely up over its banks, but not in any danger of cresting the berms on either side. I don't know how easy it is to tell, but it was incredibly blustery with roiling clouds overhead (to give you a bit of an idea, I took this photo at about 2:30 in the afternoon).
Crossposted from my Livejournal.
