Since this week's storm didn’t claim any lives in Seattle, most of us tend to think of the damage in terms of washed out images of I-5 and that Subaru in Golden Gardens.
The cost of reconstruction and flood repair will surely be depressing but not as depressing as the quotes from some of the farmers that had to watch hundreds of their own animals die.
"I saved as many as I could," Osborn said. "It was the worst day of my life."
One dairy farmer was cut off from his herd so quickly that all he could do was hunker down in the second story of his house and listen to the wails of his dying cows.
Osborn could not save most of his family's animals, losing an estimated 180 cows.
The cow population of southwest Washington appears to be the hardest hit population at this early stage of recovery. If the storm had focused further to the populated North perhaps we’d be talking about ravaged communities of domestic house cats but today all the woe belongs to the cows and the farmers who loved them.
Image courtesy of Slightlynorth. (More pics from P-I)
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That is incredibly sad.
I really don't know whether to be saddened by the story or amused by the photo.