Friday, January 13, 2006

Day 26

In 1953 we set a record for 33 straight days of rain, and we are closing in!!! Everywhere is flooded, it keeps coming down. For the first time in almost 20 years, our water reservoirs for the region will be at normal levels. Last year, there was no snow on the mountains, and all the ski resorts couldn't open and we had drought issues. Not this year!!

I am happy about the rain, as previously discussed, and also because of the fact that we bought a house on a hill. If ever it is going to fall off that hill, it is during the month of rain. If this doesn't do it, I am quite sure it will remain there. AND...if it does fall off, we haven't closed yet, so would not be out any money for it. Tee hee.....
Actually, Seattle has extremely stringent building codes regarding houses on hills, since we are famous for having so many of the darn things. The most strict codes in the country, I am told. Our house is actually built onto pilings sunk deep into the ground, I am not sure how far they go down. No mudslides here!! THere have been some slides in the area, but not in the city. There wer some famous in-city slides 5 or so years ago, but those involved some houses built back in the 1930's, before all the codes, and some huge condo/townhouses that were not built to code, as it turns out. Big lawsuit for the builder on that one! The townhouses were all over the news, since they were on Capital Hil right by the freeway, and you could see as you drove past that two of them were really leaning back towards the freeway. It was awfully tricky for them to demolish those guys and replace the lot with houses built to code that are not going to slide. Anyway.......

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