Results tagged “flood”

Fran Camber was in her home on 23rd Ave NE when a water main two blocks to the north burst. It was just past 12:30 p.m.

Yikes--the 6,000 Orting, Wash., and 20,000 Orting Valley residents have been asked via reverse-911 systems to leave their homes and find higher ground this afternoon. Tomorrow, Orting may be underwater. According to Lights & Sirens, Orting hasn't been evacuated like this in twenty-two years. Because the flooding situation is so dangerous, sandbag operations to try to alleviate the damage have ceased and most schools in the area have closed early. Good luck and godspeed to our brave neighbors in Pierce County.

And we quote from the weather advisory: "FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT ... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE HAS EXPANDED THE FLOOD WATCH TO INCLUDE A PORTION OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ... INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... KING ... KITSAP ... LEWIS ... PIERCE ... THURSTON. FROM 4 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT. PERIODS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE WATCH AREA THURSDAY AND PERSIST THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT." Wear your galoshes if you're going out tonight. [Update: new shit has come to light: "NEW COMPUTER MODELS ARE SHIFTING HEAVY PRECIPITATION SOUTHWARD FROM EARLIER GUIDANCE AND ARE ALSO

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.

As an alumnus of Centralia Community College (out of boredom, we took a Latin class there one fall) and former southwest Washington resident, we've been following the flooding thataway with interest. A friend of ours just passed along two emails from K. in Centralia, and they can't be beat for a you-are-there feel that balances some of the apocalyptic news coverage -- let's face it, if nothing terrible happened to you, you aren't news. On...

Anti- reissued three Neko Case albums today: Furnace Room Lullaby from 2000, Blacklisted from 2002, and last year's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Stock up if you don't have 'em.

Seattlest got the news from a coworker yesterday: an explosion in midtown Manhattan had resulted in a collapsed building (MSNBC); then that no, in fact, it was a transformer that exploded, leaving a nearby building "shaky" (CNN).

--Our Greg Nickels will ascend to the office of President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 2009.

A while ago, we were invited to a happy hour at Coco la ti da, and then we didn't review its offerings because we know when we're out of our league. All we'd heard about it was that it was a "dessert lounge," and our ears perked up because we like to sample how different places do chocolate mousse. (It's a quirk.)

We've heard -- at least 2280 times -- that bacon makes everything better. But seriously: bacon mints? Bacon mints? Archie McPhee's new candy is certainly demented, but is it genius?

Each one of these mints tastes like a delicious slice of crispy bacon with just a hint of mint flavor to give it that extra punch! It may sound weird but once you taste it, you'll see that mint and bacon is a match made in China.

--The guy who was in charge of the Zune squirted himself off the Microsoft campus to "focus on the next chapter of his life." Riiight. X-Box leader J Allard takes over.

AUTHOR, AUTHOR: Barbara Ehrenreich talks about her book Dancing in the Streets, in which she explores the desire for collective joy (see photo), historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.

The Times reports today that it was a sort of flash flood that drowned Kate Fleming, an award-winning audiobook narrator and producer, in her basement Thursday night, as she tried to move her expensive audio equipment upstairs.

On Friday, December 29th at 10am, KEXP will begin counting down the top 90.3 albums of 2006 (does that mean 90 good albums plus one only a third of which is any good? We don't know). In the meantime, until December 26th you and everyone you know can vote for your own top five albums of the year.

There's a national transportation bigwig in Seattle today pledging flood relief and the like. Transportation secretary Mary Peters is a Bush appointee, though, so if the rebuilding of NOLA is any indication Rainier will probably erupt before the flood-damaged areas around it are repaired.

A hiker friend tipped us off to some interesting shots of Suiattle River flood action available at this NWHikers.net message board thread. This map details the location of the washouts where the pictures were taken. Our friend says: "The pictures are in the middle of the web page, they open to a nice viewing size. Some of the pictures that look like boring river pictures are actually where the road should be. Amazing. The Boundry Bridge photos are of a bridge that was blown out a few years ago and is one of the upper left bridges of the map."

Episode six settles a longstanding real estate debate: Where would Burke and Cristina's minimalist condo exist in "real" life?

If you're like us, you already own all of Neko Case's CDs. Get ready to expand your collection. Her first DVD -- her 2003 performance on Austin City Limits -- will be available October 10:

Performing on Austin City Limits, one of Neko and her grandmother's all-time favorite programs, was one of Neko's proudest career moments, and probably one of her proudest personal moments as well...

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Around Seattlest HQ, word went out about the news that Craigslist will soon start charging for Seattle job listings. Come October 22nd, the site is going to charge $25 for job postings in an effort to curb spam, overposting, and other "quality issues." Seattlest predicts the following:

Before we get into the review, let's draw your attention to the Kristin Hersh show this Tuesday, and Patricia Barber next Tuesday and Wednesday. TIME says Patricia Barber is what you get when you "cross Diana Krall with Susan Sontag." Who can pass that up?

Her-own-drum majorette and alt-boy dream date Neko Case was interviewed on NPR's World Cafe today.

The latest chapter in the singer's story is a solo album, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, which serves as one of those rare pleasurable paradoxes: offbeat but faithful to the classics, artsy but accessible, emotional while remaining intriguingly playful.

Saturday night Neko Case came to the Moore Theater, and the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer covered it. Now that she's from Canada, see, she gets all sorts of attention. Of course, she's also a well-known Satanist.

Carl Rogers, owner of the Old Pequliar, got in touch to give us his take on the events from last week. He writes:

[Former quiz host] Word, who now lives in California, was in town visiting for about a week. For old times sake, he wanted to host trivia. Sounded like fun- or so I thought. Many people came to see Word- he was a very popular host at the o.p. Trivia rivalry being what it can be, and Word being; 1. stupid, and 2. really drunk, he and [the most recent host] butted heads from the onset. Word grew progressively more drunk as I am sure [recent host] and his friends grew progressively frustrated. The evening ended with a discrepancy in who the winners were. Instead of trying to recount or be reasonable about it, Word shut them down and told them the contest was over. To add insult to injury, he physically threatened [recent host].

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Seattlest probably isn't going to go see Adam Sandler's new movie Click. Momentarily setting aside the fact that we're a bit behind on our theatrical releases (haven't seen Inconvenient Truth and it's playing 5 blocks from the house), the flood of big name comedian vehicles have been disappointing lately. Word is even Nacho Libre sucks. Sandler hasn't made a good movie in... Has Sandler ever made a good movie?

Seattlest got invited to the screening of the new Al Gore flick, An Inconvenient Truth, at Pacific Place last night. (It opens Friday, June 2 in Seattle.) For an Al Gore flick, Mayor Greg Nickels and King County Executive Ron Sims show up. (And they pretend to make nice, because columnist Brodeur scolded them about not playing well together.) Then after the film, Chris Gregoire comes out and introduces surprise guest Al Gore and the crowd goes wild. Especially when she says how a few years ago at a rally, she had the privilege of introducing Gore as the next president, "-- and I was right!"

To celebrate its paperback release, local author Garth Stein is reading from his novel How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets tonight at Fremont Place Books. It's the story of a 31-year-old Seattle rock musician who's got a 14-year-old son who suddenly re-enters his life, as well as a secret history of epilepsy.