Soggy Oregon

 Lots of rain came down last Thursday here in Oregon.

With it, came damage.  

One lane of Highway 22, that heads out to Detroit and beyond from Salem (goes west too from Salem) sunk and slid out.

I took the above rain totals for our area from a post by a Lebanon friend that also featured some flooded fields around here.   The waters are receding everywhere, but the threat of landslides continue.   We will have rain off and on the next week except, they say, on Tuesday.

As you can see, our town got over 3 inches.

Scio which is 20 minutes from here, well they got almost 5.

One day!

Part of highway 101 slid out too, just south of Neskowin.  Highway 101 runs north and south along the coast of Oregon (and all the west coast).

Slide on 101

This happens around here.  Can't say its unusual.  Another slide occurred over Quartzville road, where I spent a lot of time last fall before a slide closed it in December a year ago too, near the same spot, catching all those poor cats left up there to die.

Highway 6 is closed indefinitely due to slide that cracked the highway.  I think the crack sunk half the road about a foot, maybe more.  That road is a highly used cut off from highway 26 to Tillamook area.

Major blow downs of trees caused lots of damage too, including closing popular places like Silver Falls State Park.    Anyway, the damage is widespread.  Flooding damaged properties.  I think one guy died driving through high water (past warning signs). But...these things happen here.    And I hear we're in for even more atmospheric river events.

My neighbor is moving.  Her offer got accepted on a mobile home in another part of town.  She says she'll take her time with the move.    I don't know where her roommate is going to move to.   Maybe he'll find another roommate.   I don't know.  He could get a cheaper place around here, but I think he's moving east in his motor home, to live on some friends property.  So I hear.   

I had to repair the barbacue pergola I turned into a cat house, out in the cat yard.  It had a rain resistant cover on a metal frame.  I'd covered the sides of the metal frame in a mishmash of wood.  I put a piece of old floor vinyl over the rain resistant cover.  By now though, years later, that vinyl, scorched and brittled by the hot sun, whipped by wind, pounded by rain, is disintegrating.  And allowing rain to leak inside.   I had half a spray can of flex seal left from when I tried to stop leaks in the gutter.   I sprayed the underside of that rain resistant cover with that two days ago, got it all over me in the process even though I wore rubber gloves.  I had to put rubbing alcohol on my hands and arms and scrub them with a nail brush to get it off.  Yuk.   

I'm going to get a piece of tarp over the top of that little makeshift cat house today I hope, to keep the rain outside so the cats can sleep in it again.  There's a lot that needs fixing around here.

Sooner or later, it being Oregon, wood rots and metal rusts.   Just the way it is.  Cement and decks turn dark slimy slick green with algae.  Moss covers sidewalks a brighter spongier green at least than cement algae.  Yards pop up shrooms of all sorts.  It's not rocket science.  It's Oregon.  What can I say.

It was sunny part of yesterday.   The birds were out and after the leftover apples in the tree.  

The cats have been sleeping a lot.  They would like to kick me out of the house more.  They get more sleep.  

Old old Teddy has lost muscle mass but still going.  He sleeps a lot.  He was old Slinko's buddy and I thought he'd go before Slinko.

And here's Stevie...the neighbors cat.  Playing King of the Cat Yard.