Too Much Water

 Too much rain.  Wind too.   

Flooding this evening all over town and outside town.  All over Oregon actually.  Lots of roads closed.  

Best to stay put.   Inside.

Night before last, was a wind storm, with the rain, that took out power in a lot of places.

I drove a cat trapped by accident to the clinic yesterday morning and wondered why traffic on highway 34 was backed up for miles.  Well two traffic lights near Corvallis were out, so people had to pretend major intersections were four way stops.

The gorgeous Mister Frederick got neutered.  He's from Scio.   

His people picked him up from here later on and are recuperating this beautiful sweetie.  

I have an app on my phone to get local police alerts and they just keep coming in this evening, about flooding.  Like a street flooded two blocks from me.  Well all over town different places, actually.   I'm just staying in.  We still have power, at least.  By we, I mean myself and the cats.  Lol.

In case you didn't know that.

I don't suppose the high water overwhelming rivers streams and streets will vanish as soon as the rain stops since the mountains are getting more rain than the valley and that will take awhile to work down to us in the lower levels.   Nothing to do about it but wait and hope it doesn't do massive damage for a lot of people and infrastructure.

I got bored today and went to a few different stores and walked around a lot, just to get out.   Wind was very strong.  Walking against it back to my car reminded me of childhood walks on very windy beaches in Bandon.   We thought it was fun, to lean into it and be completely supported at an angle by the wind.

This is a boring video but....well here it is anyway.