The best shots III

Mining the Photobucket account, I am continuing the Navy Days theme.

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In reference to the rising waters entry yesterday, it has more or less stopped raining, and the rivers and creeks are not rising anymore, generally.  My friend A didn’t go to work yesterday – he was pumping out the basement.  Johnson Creek rose to within five feet of his back door.  In other words, it rose above the five foot bank in his backyard and then spread over most of his backyard.  He is/was isolated by the waters, which flooded Foster Road to his immeadate north, and with no way out, he and J are more or less stranded in their neighborhood until the waters drop.  I have posted lots of pics from his backyard, but I can’t get there right now, so we’ll just have to imagine it.  Johnson Creek has flooded near my apartment and Crystal Creek, which runs into Johnson creek near here has flooded apartments near the park whose slideshow I posted this last summer.

The coast was inacessible from Portland – all highways were/are closed to the coast due to flooding/downed trees, and Seattle is cut off from Portland by I-5 being closed for a 22 mile stretch in Washington.  The detour runs through Yakima, a several hundred mile detour.  Amtrak is closed north of Portland, and with the flooding of I-5, train passengers are at the moment stranded in Portland.

US 101 is closed on the coast in several places, and things are bad in towns on the coast.  Bouys on in the Pacific recored storm surges of up to 44 feet…before they broke free from their moorings.

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Life on the ship:

This is my bearthing area on the ship.  Our bunks were in stacks of three, with locker space under the mattresses.  Since I came aboard the ship before most of the crew, I got a bottom rack for myself; in the background, we can see someone kneeling by his bottom rack, with the mattress lifted, and another guy with his middle rack opened .

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This is the view aft on the ship, standing at the helicopter hanger and looking at some of the crew hanging out on the stern.  You can see that the ship was rolling.  This is the south central Atlantic Ocean or the Carribean (t’was a long time ago).

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Here is some of the crew at work on the bridge wing:

This is looking forward, on the second deck of the ship above the main deck; one guy is taking a sighting. You can see a searchlight and just below it, a life raft container.

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