Happy New Year, guys,

[mhagen]

Way too much snow to work in the woods here so I may as well relax after
end of year reports. Pass the egg nog!

Mike

[D. Staples]

Same to ya Mike, and all the regulars.

[mhagen]

How's the weather down there Don? I'm tired of shoveling.

[D. Staples]

60-70's and rain, I think I am beginning to mold.

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[Joe]

Mike, where are you again, Oregon? I thought it only rained there - every
day!

Joe

PS: been cold here in central Mass. (0-30F) and some snow- rather typical

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[mhagen]

Hey Joe,
I'm on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, live just west of Port
Angeles and mostly work farther west on the Hoh River watershed.

We seem to be getting snow every December but it still rains the rest of
the year! Forks gets about 10-11 feet on average and many parts of the
Hoh exceed 12 ft yearly. Coming from Wisconsin, I appreciate a good
winter-- we get just enough to get tired of the shoveling, and then its
over in late January.

Its funny- this year we're way behind on rainfall but it sure has been
cold. We missed the big ice storm you guys got in the N.E.

[Larry Harrell]

I hope you are staying dry, Mike.

I'm seeing that Seattle eco's, tired of all that weather, are blaming
"climate instability" for the flooding, with no mention of the
abnormally-heavy low elevation snowpack that fed the flooding. Surely
they "prayed" to GAIA for more cold, snow and ice, forgetting that the
rain would surely return and wash all that away. Rain on snow events
are "natural" so, why aren't they embracing the flood waters?

This is merely weather and not climate disaster. Looks like there will
be plenty of work up there for ya, Mike. Take care!

Larry

[mhagen]

You talk like you've been to the land of the granola crunchers and 4
lattes a day folk. Thats the other side of the Sound from here (with
the exception of Port Townsend, which is a lost colony from Arcata, CA
from 1975). This is the copenhagen chewing, three piece rain gear and
hickory shirt wearing side of the mountains.

Of course the climate is unstable here. We like it that way. You can
just see it whizzing by most days.

Had 8.8 inches one one day last week. That was only half what they got
at Lake Quinalt, 40 miles to the south. The hills melt with that much rain.

[Joe]

And those hills melt even faster if huge clearcuts are done on them- which
of course don't happen as much, thanks to those dam, commy, pinko, fagot
tree huggers!

Joe

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[mhagen]

Well, there are less but not zero. Private owners can still clearcut
(with a hazy requirement for a few leave trees) and everybody else is
still living the most recent legal CC's. It will take a while to grow
them all up, and many are now at the age when the old tree roots are
rotting away -- making it easy to get big slides during rain fall like
last week.