I have long thought

I have long thought that I live in the best part of the country for weather.

That Big Snow Storm that they were predicting didn’t do much to Portland. It began snowing before 11 pm – quiet stuff, that snow. I didn’t notice and I wasn’t home and had to drive home on fresh snow, but it changed to rain while I slept and most of the snow was gone the next day.

Watching the Evening News last night though, I see dire predictions for most of the West Coast. Big Time snow in Seattle – and they are more used to rain. It looks like – and they said just now – that it will RAIN here all day. All of the next seven days too

Given the way the roads looks, with lots of flooding and 17th Ave is a parking lot as it goes by my apartment, I am glad I’m not driving anywhere.

By the way, when it began snowing the other night, I would have grabbed my Blacky Cat to show him – it hasn’t snowed here, really, since the winter of 08-09. I did grab my new camera and took some balcony shots.

Hand-held shot, no tripod, no flash(!).

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I’ve been learning this new camera’s styles, although, I am surprised by how these pics came out; I wouldn’t even have tried these shots with my other camera, without a tripod.

All of that snow melted within the day, yesterday, so now we are having flooding issues, joining the "downed trees" issues and the high water levels of rivers and streams.

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