it’s pretty awful Glad your kids are ok. Weused to live in a little town near Bellingham before we moved to Olympia. The year before we moved, there were historic floods in the valley where we were living. Our house was okay, but it was very traumatic. So when we shopped for our house in Olympia, a priority was no running water near by. We are on saltwater, but the sea level will have to rise considerably before it would affect me. So we are fine here, but the videos and stories are heartbreaking. One that really got me was a man driving a pick up truck on one of the highways that cross the cascades. river parallels the road for a long ways. apparently a log was being carried down the raging river and it hit something like a large boulder. It was travelling so fast that the force of the hit launched the log out of the river up onto the road and through the windshield of the truck!! Miraculously, it went through on the passenger side and no one was sitting there. Amazing! So many rivers, so many valleys where the water spreads out. Hope our other PNW members check in.

@olychick it's a miracle, but there have been no fatalities at all. Just like many Californians, they are prepared to shelter in place if necessary but also have a Go-bag ready to evacuate. It's part of the NPS employee training. They become first responders in the event the Cascadian Subduction event becomes reality.

Luckily, I am not in a severely affected area. We are not near a river or in a low-lying area. We are merely soggy, but the sun is peeking out today. The devastation in nearby areas is heartwrenching. I was happy to see on IG that Floret flowers returned to her farm without damage today. The videos and photos from around Western Washington are shocking!

Whew! Glad to know you are ok @Mimou-GW and @morz8 - Washington Coast

So glad everyone is safe and doing well. I saw a video from Snoqualmie Falls and the volume of water was surreal.

The videos have flooded my instagram feed. There was one of elk (I think) swimming in neck high waters on the town’s middle school football field.

My friends in our old town live on the river, which floods most years, but not usually this bad. She sent me pics the first day of the flooded yard with a pair of Hooded Mergansers floating around like they'd always been there...not what you usually see in their yard. Today it was a Great Blue Heron. In winter they often get Snow Geese and always elk, but both seem to have moved to higher ground and the new critters are trying things out.

So glad to hear everyone’s ok! I’ve seen some wild pictures, very scary.

Thanks for checking in. The news always shows the really bad areas....we never know how people and animals "really" are doing.