Must be cold...

[saltchuckmatt]

Folks live on lopez island in what is now not allowed to be as close to the beach and got hit with a big storm and king tide a couple three years ago.

Yeah, lopez and all the island people are used to this. Most of the San Jaun islands have 0 cover.

Definitely some of the coolest islands in the world.

 

[saltchuckmatt]

That’s a mess alright. All the best on the clean up

Thanks buddy, you take care and always good to hear from you!

 

[redneck joe]

Yeah, lopez and all the island people are used to this. Most of the San Jaun islands have 0 cover.

Definitely some of the coolest islands in the world.

Folks are in mid 80s, not too many visits left so we go as often as we can and if we can afford it the float plane ride to fisherman's bay is fun. We typically ferry home due to weather out of the islands and catching flights home from SEA .

 

[saltchuckmatt]

Folks are in mid 80s, not too many visits left so we go as often as we can and if we can afford it the float plane ride to fisherman's bay is fun. We typically ferry home due to weather out of the islands and catching flights home from SEA .

Yes, enjoy them as much as you can!

 

[saltchuckmatt]

This is a local weatherman and this pretty much sums up our situation at least traveling wise.

511K views · 5.9K reactions | Historic storms wreaking havoc in the #PNW. | Jake Whittenberg

Historic storms wreaking havoc in the #PNW.

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[aspeck]

West Coast storm certainly blew east ... started the day in the low 50's and rain. Then the wind and the temp dropped 25 degrees in a little over an hour and the rain turned to sideways snow. Just got back from a dwelling fire ... we were able to save it from being a total loss. Best we can tell the wind caused a power surge into the house. The outside meter was burnt up and the panel box was a mess of melted wires and breakers. Contained the fire to a small area around the box. If we hadn't, the fire would have been unstoppable in the 50mph winds ...

 

[saltchuckmatt]

West Coast storm certainly blew east ... started the day in the low 50's and rain. Then the wind and the temp dropped 25 degrees in a little over an hour and the rain turned to sideways snow. Just got back from a dwelling fire ... we were able to save it from being a total loss. Best we can tell the wind caused a power surge into the house. The outside meter was burnt up and the panel box was a mess of melted wires and breakers. Contained the fire to a small area around the box. If we hadn't, the fire would have been unstoppable in the 50mph winds ...

Yes, temps are dropping like a toilet drain. Wide spread flooding is still around so I can't even imagine what might happen if it continues. Popcorn clouds have moved in...the passes are blizzards now. Low land snow is predicted next week. The saga continues.

Great work BTW, what area are you specifically talking about?

I've seen reports of eastern Washington...typically they are used to it but not much info flowing right now about that side of the mighty Cascade mountain ranges.

Thanks for the info.

 

[aspeck]

Yes, temps are dropping like a toilet drain. Wide spread flooding is still around so I can't even imagine what might happen if it continues. Popcorn clouds have moved in...the passes are blizzards now. Low land snow is predicted next week. The saga continues.

Great work BTW, what area are you specifically talking about?

I've seen reports of eastern Washington...typically they are used to it but not much info flowing right now about that side of the mighty Cascade mountain ranges.

Thanks for the info.

When I said blew east ... I meant EAST ... Central PA.

 

[saltchuckmatt]

When I said blew east ... I meant EAST ... Central PA.

Lol....okay. agreed that's east!

 

[Grub54891]

Even up here on Chequamegon bay on Lake Superior, when the storms hit, the logs, slab wood, and other debris gets ripped up from the bottom of the lake. back in the day there were massive sawmills on the shore around the bay. They would have log rafts also from the foresters and those still to this day show up.

 

[Crosbyman]

let it dry out...cheap fire wood stumps make nice table lamps

 

[saltchuckmatt]

let it dry out...cheap fire wood stumps make nice table lamps

Funny you mentioned this, back in the '70s my neighbor up here at my cabin was a logbroker. Back then the Japanese people would buy ship loads of logs. They would bury him back in Japan in the bogs and preserve them. It was quite an entire industry and then I believe, at least the Americans figured it out and they no longer started selling logs. I'm assuming the still happened up in Canada too but maybe it's only here on the West Coast.

On another note, and this is mainly for Crosbyman... I thought maybe I'd send you this as a memento or possibly I might rebuild it. Crosby man has shown me how to hook up some batteries in series so definitely it's not worth replacing but maybe I should just hang it on the wall.

Not sure anyone else here will recognize it...but I know he will.

Happy holidays to all.

Peace,
Matt

 

[Crosbyman]

thanks for the memories as a Telco tech...

sorry to hear they buried " him" your neighbor in the bog ...;-)

In Quebec earlier in the late 1800 early 1900 they would ship logs down river floating tons of wood for processing . A lot of big logs get stuck in the bottom of the St-Maurice river bed of the but never rotted from lack of oxygen. Today those logs are worth a fortune.

 

[redneck joe]

I think there was a short lived TV series about reclaiming sunken logs.

 

[saltchuckmatt]

thanks for the memories as a Telco tech...

sorry to hear they buried " him" your neighbor in the bog ...;-)

In Quebec earlier in the late 1800 early 1900 they would ship logs down river floating tons of wood for processing . A lot of big logs get stuck in the bottom of the St-Maurice river bed of the but never rotted from lack of oxygen. Today those logs are worth a fortune.
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Yes, I knew you would appreciate that...fun stuff.

And yes again, didn't work out so good from the neighbor as they no longer have a place here, but on "the good" side I recently just hooked up with one of the kids that I grew up and they always had lots of JohnnyRude's and apparently they still do. This one kid had the best waterski curl you've ever seen with that sun rise or sun set in the background. That guy, still lives at a local lake and he says he's still doing it so that's super cool.

Pictures of the log jam is basically scenes I've scene many times in my areas as well... and the your right on about the "log cure" method.

I was young, but we called the boats "the log patrol" which were employees of the pulp Mills and or private contractors, they would come around with boats with giant winches and suck those same logs off the beach you're seeing in my pictures. Some were worm eatin boom logs that had lost their mornings and they floated into the estuaries and bays of Puget Sound and some were trees and logs and sticks and whatever that they decided were worth money. In fact from what I hear from old "tug boat Willey" it was like a Seattle area Gold Rush... Real wild west type stuff. Love history!

As far as the TV show I think it was called swamp loggers!