Gorgeous sunset from Mt Tabor park. Lots of big, downed trees on the north and east side of the park from our ARCTIC WINDS three weeks ago. But honestly the damage wasn’t quite as bad as I feared. I guess the historic shelter took a pretty good hit but that part of the park was cordoned off.
I was intrigued so I looked up the average high and low temperatures across WA for August of 1899. Olga's average low of 45F is pretty impressive as it's about 4 degrees colder than anything we've seen in the last 50 years. The fact it's so much colder than every other location on the west side does make me wonder if there was an error with the thermometer at that time or maybe it was just incredible cold winds blowing off the straight.
The Seattle average high for the month was almost 10 d
For my little Zionist supremacist buddy, Andrew:
“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
― Carl Sandburg
Looks like SLE set a daily rain record yesterday with .99", as did downtown Portland with .96".
Looking like 48 hour storm totals will be right up there with some of the May biggies for the Willamette Valley. The 1.31" EUG saw om Friday was their biggest one day total in May since 1972.
I'm fortunate my current company offers RSUs. so I have a bunch of equity with them. Our parent company is a Canadian holding company and the stock is worth about 3600CAD/share.
Car culture is definitely still a huge thing in the US, but it is fading. I hire a lot of young people, and it would shock you how many don't drive or even have a license.
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