The Glade 4.0

The Pineapple Express paid a visit and brought us a lot of rain from Hawaii.

Impressive video of the Stillaguamish River near Granite Falls..

Pretty amazing.

Nature is awesome.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Yeah...I found out one of my skylights leaks.

Huh. Amazing to think of the power that river must have...

This is the type of precipitation we've had recently.

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Where's my kayak?

It's amazing to me how much faith people have in hydraulic engineers. That platform is on the outer bend of a abrupt alignment adjustment in that river, and it's obvious there have been past stability issues (see the floodwall outside the fence that's periodically splashed over - that wouldn't be there if the river wasn't being forced away from where it wants to go). It's probably ok, but I've see catastrophic slope failures numerous times.

As a hydraulic engineer, I understand what it means to "tame" a river. I wouldn't be standing where those people are.