Rainy day

It was a cold and rainy day, a day so dark you could hardly tell where the water ended and the sky began. At least the wind wasn't howling like it has been. We have had several rainy/snowy days with winds gusting to 50 m.p.h. and higher. The local ski "hill" that is less than an hour away has nearly 100 inches of snow, though it should be noted that the record for snowfall at the lodge is for more than 1,000 inches. Still, eight feet of snow before Thanksgiving? At sea level we have just had inches of rain, some flooding, and random power outages as the trees and power poles failed in the wind.

Welcome to late fall in Western Washington!