Bomb Cyclone

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Know this thread isn't directly related to our Late V8 Fords, but it is related to some who support and post on this forum.

From what I can see on the national weather and news, the Northwest has been hit with one on the most devastating storms in a century, or possibly ever. Hoping our friends in Western Washington and Oregon survive this!! Our thoughts are with them!! It's going to be quite a while until things are back to normal there!!
 
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A slow news day.
This event on land were not unusual from what the NW sees 2-3 times in most winters.
The major effects of the storm were 50-100 miles off the coast into the ocean. The high winds with damage seemed to be just north of Seattle and in the Northern California coastal towns. Heavy rain and snow in high elevations, again on the coast, north of Seattle, and very northern California (just touching into very southern Oregon). Basically a moderate heavy rain storm from Seattle south through Portland to Eugene.
 
I’ve had several calls from friends outside the state, from what they saw on the news they were worried. I was out of power for 47hrs, my buddy a mile away for 5 1/2 days. His came back on at 2:30 am, so the crews are really working long hard hours.

I’m 17 miles SSE of downtown Seattle, and some 500,000 customers were out. More in the outlying counties. But few fatalities from falling trees, and above freezing till you got east to the mountains. Could have been worse. There’s a member here east of Bellingham in an area know for high wind storms. Be interesting to hear when he checks back in.

Most of our communications (all mine) are going over the cell phone networks, the phone and cable services where overhead, are pretty much still down.
 
Thanks, Karl and Miker. Your posts help to put this in better perspective!!! Your "slow news day" comment makes for much better reading...vs. the pictures of the down trees etc!!:)
 
miker98038 said:
We were much luckier than the east coast.
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talked with a friend who also lives in Kent, WA... 'burb of Seattle area. said had a limb come down and was out of power for 12 hours...


now weather is saying we should be seeing some of its remains down here on Friday.
 
Up here in B.C. it was blustery, rainy, the usual November stuff. What’s gets me is the terminology.... the Pineapple Express has now become an Atmospheric River and now we have “Bomb Cyclone”. Rather alarmist I’d say perhaps due to the Hollywoodization of common occurrences?
 
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New Weather Pattern For West Coast

It definitely is a big deal …

This is year three of a weather pattern change
that has resulted in increased property losses,
increased insurance damage claims,
shipping delays of goods transported
across the country by road, etc …

All of these costs are eventually passed
along to the consumer in the way of increased
retail prices for fresh food - insurance
premium costs for business - home - auto
coverage and state and local taxes for property
and retail sales and fuel …


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For the West Coast that involves a bomb cycle hitting the Pacific Northwest anywhere from Portland north to Seattle every 10 days or so and then moving south along the West Coast and east along I-80 in an area between I-40 and I-70 at half speed of what winter storms used to travel across the country from the west to the east and this affects the weather along the East Coast, which also is changing from an increase in hurricane and severe storm activity making landfall in the Southeast in late summer and slowly working its way north causing major flooding and wind damage along with heavy snow that is usually wet.

I follow weather because I transport vehicles
and the ability to do so is directly impacted
by weather driving conditions …

So for the last several years, I have tried
to position myself along the West Coast
in Southern California by the end of September
and transport up and down the I-5 corridor
until the spring as flooding and major
winter snow storms allow.

It doesn’t matter what you think the cause of this is
because it is happening as we speak and it is becoming
the new normal weather pattern for late summer into spring
just like spring to fall weather pattern has changed across
the lower 48 states …


Jim
Transporting To Travel
Traveling To Share
Stories From The Road
 

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This bomb cyclone would have been REALLY BIG and REALLY BAD if it had triggered on land. As it was it triggered 100 miles off the coast so we on land did not see the major effects.
 
A little windy in Lynden but nothing much really. No limbs down the first time. The second time a few days later it took the cover off of my truck but that is all. Could have been way worse if it came ashore like was stated earlier.

Mike
 
Correctomundo! That photo was taken by the previous owner just before it was loaded to come home....they were supposed to be the Edsel equivalent to Ford's Falcon. 62 was the first year they were Mercury Comet!
 
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trulyvintage said:
It definitely is a big deal …
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I couldn't agree with you more! The Gulf is warming. 1 or so degree and rising! already we are seeing more storms and hurricanes than ever before. If you have never been thru a Duracho or a Cat 1 or above hurricane, I envy you!!
 
Yes , global warming is happening! It started about 10,000 years ago when the last ice age ended and the glacial cover began to recede. As I tell my friends the warming that started then must have been caused by all the buffalo farts! Good thing Buffalo Bill got that situation under control!
 
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