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Our back garden, this morning:

Our back garden, this afternoon:

It’s snowing again now. We’re expecting 2-4″ on top of the 6-8″ we’ve already had. Good times.

For those that like to keep track of such things, Seattle is still well on pace to shatter the all-time wettest month record ever, which currently stands at 12.92″ of rain in January of 1953.

As of early Sunday morning, we were at 10.00 inches of rain for November, with plenty of storms to go. We are also working on an 11-day consecutive rain streak.

(Source: Komo).

Yeah, Seattle is renowned for its rain, but not like this.. The incessant nagging drizzle which usually delivers an inch of rain over the period of a week? I’d love to see that right now. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t care about heavy rain.. but now I own a house it’s a different story. The ground is saturated – the water has nowhere else to go. As a result, it’s flowing into the only place left: My crawlspace. Right now it’s about 3 inches from coming over the top of the foundation and into the basement, and rising at a rate of about an inch an hour (give or take). We have a sump pump, but I think it’s been there since the house was built in 1967, and I can’t get the damn thing working. So, next best choice is to spend the night filling buckets and moving the water manually.

Gah!

Well, we just got our power back after 32 hours without it, following OMGWINDSTORM2K6!!!!11oneoneone!!! Do you have any idea how much it sucks to see the people across the street not even lose power, and then waste it on christmas lights? Talk about insulting. Still, gas fireplace and gas cooktop meant we could at least stay slightly above freezing and also fry stuff.

Now we just have to see how much food needs throwing out from the freezer. Yay.