(The Economic Collapse Blog)—The slow-motion disaster that we are witnessing on the west coast is unlike anything we have ever seen before. A series of atmospheric rivers has already dumped trillions of gallons of water on the region, and trillions of gallons of additional water will fall before the end of the year. This has caused some rivers to rise to the highest levels that we have ever seen. Meanwhile, some areas in the Northwest have been repeatedly pummeled by extremely high winds. As you will see below, some of the wind speeds that have been recorded are difficult to believe. For a long time I have been warning my readers that weather patterns have been going nuts all over the globe, but of course many people will never be convinced until it actually happens where they live. For tens of millions of Americans that live along the west coast, a wake up call has finally arrived.
According to the Weather Channel, the parade of storms that we have been witnessing will continue to roll on into next week…
A parade of Pacific storms accompanied by atmospheric rivers will continue to march into the West Coast into Christmas week, spreading the threat of heavy rain from already flooded areas of western Washington to Oregon and California.
To say it’s been a terrible stretch of weather in parts of the West has been an understatement.
The last sentence in that quote made me smile.
Yes, “a terrible stretch of weather” would most certainly be an understatement…
First, record flooding hit parts of western Washington. Then, as flood-ravaged areas were recovering, a powerhouse windstorm blasted much of the Northwest and Rockies Wednesday, with winds clocked up to 144 mph and over 160 reports of wind damage in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.
I can’t recall a windstorm of this magnitude ever hitting the Pacific Northwest in modern times.
It is being reported that at least nine different states experienced wind speeds of over 100 mph…
High winds slammed the Pacific Northwest and Rockies Wednesday and Wednesday night, cutting power to three-quarters of a million customers at peak, according to PowerOutage.US. That number was down to 325,000 as of Thursday morning.
The highest wind gusts in the region were on mountain tops — 144 mph at Mount Coffin, Wyoming, 142 mph at Coldwater Ridge, Washington, and 138 mph at Mount Hood, Oregon. Winds gusted over 100 mph on mountaintops in at least nine different states.
Now that storm has moved into the middle of the country, and blizzard conditions are expected in much of the Northern Plains…
“Wind gusts of 80+ mph, several feet of mountain snow, and blizzard conditions are in the forecast for the northern and western U.S. today and tomorrow,” the forecast said.
A map included with the post on X showed that while the entirety of the Northern Plains was expected to see some impacts from the storm, some states will likely be hit by widespread major impacts. These include Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, Colorado and Idaho.
But it is the west coast that has been getting hit harder than anyone else.
Some areas of Washington state have already had about 2 feet of rain, and more rain is on the way.
Yes, Washington state always gets rain, but this is truly unusual.
If you can believe it, approximately 5 trillion gallons of water fell on the state in just a 7 day period…
Warm water and air and unusual weather conditions tracing back as far as tropical cyclone flooding in Indonesia helped supercharge stubborn atmospheric rivers that have drenched Washington state with almost 5 trillion gallons (19 trillion liters) of rain in the past seven days, threatening record flood levels, meteorologists said.
The Skagit River rose to the highest level ever recored.
So did the Snohomish River.
Needless to say, many other bodies of water flooded as well.
According to Governor Bob Ferguson, a 49 mile stretch of US Highway 2 will be closed for months as a result of the flooding…
Massive flooding conditions persist across western Washington as another round of heavy rain and wind targets the region, adding to the damage from last week’s historic flooding and raising renewed concerns about vulnerable levees, landslide risks, and long-term transportation disruptions.
On Tuesday, Gov. Bob Ferguson said a 49-mile stretch of US Highway 2 between Skykomish and Leavenworth will be closed for months after floodwaters and mudslides heavily damaged the roadway.
Unfortunately, more rain is in the forecast.
In fact, it is being projected that some areas of western Oregon could get more than 10 inches of rain from this next storm…
A general 4-8 inches of rain is forecast to fall on western Oregon, with slightly less in the Interstate 5 corridor near Portland. From 8-12 inches of rain with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 16 inches is projected for the western slopes of the Oregon Cascades.
This amount of rain will be enough to unleash moderate to major flooding along both small streams and rivers in western Oregon. A few locations may experience crests close to record levels, such as in the Portland area. Motorists should be prepared for areas of high water and road washouts. Mudslides are also a danger with the storm.
Meanwhile, meteorologist Ryan Maue is telling us that the Sierra Mountains in California could see up to 30 inches of precipitation from the “firehose of moisture” that is approaching…
California is looking at historic precipitation from onslaught of atmospheric rivers in next 10-days.
Could be 20″ or 30″ mostly rain in the Sierra from “firehose of moisture” directed right at coast with strong jet stream.
This going to be really bad.
He isn’t exaggerating.
It certainly looks like the next couple of weeks will be really bad.
If you live in an area along the west coast that is prone to flooding, you should be doing what you can to get prepared.
Of course this is just the beginning.
Global weather patterns have been getting increasingly unstable for quite a while, and I am entirely convinced that what is coming in the years ahead will be much worse than anything that we are experiencing now.
We really are living in extremely chaotic times, and the insane weather that we are currently witnessing is just one element of “the perfect storm” that is now upon us.
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God’s still n control, to punish evil doers and also to keep those who are His safe in the same storm.
Hunga tonga underwater volcano…thats the rrason for the flooding and no one even looks at that.
Can’t cloud-seed everyday and expect nothing in return.
California, Oregon, Washington… three of the most overall ungodly states in the Union. Early in American history people used to ask God “what’s wrong?”… what evil is in our midst to cause such punishment. And then they’d do something about it. Today, people look for a “rational” answer and never think about evil in their own backyard. God is sending warning after warning to this nation. Is anyone listening??
Send that rain to CA. Isn’t there a water pipeline? why not?
I live on the West Coast and today is 70 degrees not a cloud in sight and CALM… Must be a different West coast.
Maybe they mean the Pacific Northwest?
Gee…….imagine if Cali (and other left coast states) had actually built the voter approved water storage facilities (dams) years ago. They’d have all the water they need over the typical western cycles of 2 to 3 years dry followed by 1 year of a deluge.
The last reservoir built of any consequence to add to the, what I call the “water grid” in Cali was completed in 1983. It was the New Melones reservoir in the central Sierra Nevada foothills. It’s capacity was around 2.4 million acre feet. California’s population in 1983 was 20 million people. California’s population today is just north of 40 million with ZERO added grid storage since 1983.
The voters of California passed a measure in 2018 (I believe) overwhelmingly to be taxed and to build additional major water grid storage projects down the west side of the Central Valley. Did the State perform the duties the voters directed them to do? Nope, but the State sure as heck started collecting the taxes. What then did the State of California do with those tax receipts? Well, not surprisingly, they used those funds to, believe this, to tear DOWN four smaller reservoirs up in northeast California on the Klamath River. You read that correctly, they removed *4* reservoirs to make life easier for spawning salmon. Never mind the State had already built state of the art salmon ladders so the salmon could safely bypass the dams and continue on their merry way.
Throughout Mother Earth’s four-plus-billion-year history, chaos has ruled at times. smug little human beings, so proud of their (lack of) understanding and penchant to project, should be careful should they wish to survive. A long time ago, massive plate tectonics ruled the surface, then there was the Flood, and then there was Sodom and Gomorrah. It appears lilliputian human beings are actually quite slow to learn the consequence of valuing smugness over critical thinking. Oh dear me, what are we to do?
Wow! Think of all the pent-up wind power the turbines will generate! Provided the blades don’t disengage and decapitate a few million Green Watermelons. Because that would be a shame…..
WEATHER WAR! Noticed a suspicious pattern starting in eastern Manchuria continuing across the Pacific a couple years ago. And here we are. America First! ULTRAMAGA!
Looks a lot like the Columbus Day Storm in 1962
It’s called monsoon season and it happens every year. EVERY YEAR YOU’VE BEEN ALIVE, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE.
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We didn’t start recording the simplest weather data until the 1600’s, so yeah we have four centuries of recorded data. If the world is 4.5B years old that means we are only looking at 0.0000088% of the world’s weather history to try to predict ALL of the weather’s future. That’s 8.8 millionths of a percent, yes millionths. Amazing how some expect to use so little to convince us of so much. And to top it all off you have some that say they can alter the planet’s weather patterns and darken the sun to prevent it all. These people are bat ship crazy, but since they have tons of cash baking them they are able to push this ship down our throats. I’m not swallowing it.
On top of this, Greasy-G Newsom refused to meet with Exxon CEO about keeping Exxon in California. He tells Exxon, “I’m good.” Now gas will be going to $10 per gallon and they’ll be wet at the same time.
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