Flood Damage at Mount Rainier

greenpea

One of my favorite locations for photography is Mount Rainier. Unfortunately there won’t be any photography at the mountain again anytime soon. This month the Pacific Northwest received a record amount of rain, only half way through November and we’ve already set the all time record for rain for this month (as measured at Seattle Tacoma International airport).

All this rain caused a ton of damage to Mount Rainier (and throughout the Pacific Northwest), and for the first time since World War II, Mount Rainier National Park is closed indefinitely. One campsite was completely wiped off the map by flood waters!

I just wanted to share with you all the pictures from the National Park Service web site of all of the damage…

http://www.nps.gov/mora/parknews/images-of-the-flood-of-2006.htm?eid=136985&root_aId=223#e_136985

ChrisJ

Wow, that's incredible. I'm sure the winter isn't going to make it any easier to get everything fixed up. I guess the Mountain wanted some privacy...

Skippy

greenpea wrote:

One of my favorite locations for photography is Mount Rainier. Unfortunately there won’t be any photography at the mountain again anytime soon. This month the Pacific Northwest received a record amount of rain, only half way through November and we’ve already set the all time record for rain for this month (as measured at Seattle Tacoma International airport).

All this rain caused a ton of damage to Mount Rainier (and throughout the Pacific Northwest), and for the first time since World War II, Mount Rainier National Park is closed indefinitely. One campsite was completely wiped off the map by flood waters!

I just wanted to share with you all the pictures from the National Park Service web site of all of the damage…

http://www.nps.gov/mora/parknews/images-of-the-flood-of-2006.htm?eid=136985&root_aId=223#e_136985

Ouch some nasty damage there....... fast moving waters are not match for any roads or bridges are they.

Skippy (Australia)

greenpea

Skippy wrote:

Ouch some nasty damage there....... fast moving waters are not match for any roads or bridges are they.

Skippy (Australia)

One poor guy from Florida was visiting nearby Olympic National Park, and had all the roads into and out of his location wash out. They rescued him by helicopter but his rental car is still stuck, and they tell him it may be a year or more before the roads to his rental car are repaired, meanwhile the rental company keeps charging him $28 a day.

dragon300zx

greenpea wrote:

One poor guy from Florida was visiting nearby Olympic National Park, and had all the roads into and out of his location wash out. They rescued him by helicopter but his rental car is still stuck, and they tell him it may be a year or more before the roads to his rental car are repaired, meanwhile the rental company keeps charging him $28 a day.

thats why you buy the optional insurance.

claudermilk

greenpea wrote:

One poor guy from Florida was visiting nearby Olympic National Park, and had all the roads into and out of his location wash out. They rescued him by helicopter but his rental car is still stuck, and they tell him it may be a year or more before the roads to his rental car are repaired, meanwhile the rental company keeps charging him $28 a day.

:wow Sucks to be him. That is indeed why you buy the insurance.