Well crap... that sucks. Hope everything stays dry. It would be really nice to see the water drainage make significant progress before the rain returns.

Isn't part of that area covered in deep water now normally a slough or wetland or is everything in your pics normally dry, solid ground?

The Bastardi article a few posts bacl mentioned 2 years where winter essentially ended with Dec. - 89-90 and 05-06. I wasn't living in the Midwest in 05-06, but I remember Dec. 89 well, and it was very different from this Dec. The cold was much more intense, and lasted a lot longer - see the table of official temps from Fort Wayne International airport below, it's nothing like this year. And while there was snow - around 5 inches on Christmas Day for Northern Indiana - there was nothing even close to a synoptic storm (in fact the closest we got to a synoptic storm all season was the famous - in Indiana - 8 inches that fell around the 18th of Oct). All of the snow came in 1/2 inch to 2 inch shots, but was able to add up add up because it was so cold. All that's to say is even the years that appear similar are very different when it comes to winter in the Midwest. Official temps/precip readings for FWA Dec. 13-31, 1989:

Just about every single meso model is showing widespread 40mph winds, and a swath of 50+mph winds from the northern Hood Canal area and across through South Snohomish/North King County on Monday. The HRRR remains adamant that Everett gets whacked with 60+mph. One silver lining is that the worst winds (in densely populated areas at least) are right over the exact same area that got shadowed all week and likely doesn't have the most saturated soil right now, at least not compared to everywhere else.

One week away from the Winter Solstice.