That's snow by the vehicles, not waves, but that IS water flowing down the street.
We lived in an apartment building in 2006.
A few years ago we had the craziest storm ever on FEB 13. We should've just stayed home, but the school didn't close! My daughter got out of my car at school and went sailing across the sidewalk hydroplaning on the water-covered ice. The car door got away from her, it bent too far and became dented...Her brother rescued her, but her mittens blew away!
Around noon they closed the schools, I left work to pick the kids up from both schools --that was fun in the wind and rain with all the parents' vehicles everywhere...we were trapped at home after that, the road was like a river.
I think a bunkhouse was wrecked?
What does everyone else remember about that day??
Didn't a mudslide occur over by Magone's shop??
It was a wild day, my daughter's birthday is on the 14th, she always reminds us that it's the anniversary of the big storm around this time!
I remember my house flooding and carrying a screaming 5 year old and a dog in 100+ MPH winds to our car to escape to the shelter for the night, with a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder. I still have nightmares of that night. I really thought I was going to lose my house.
ReplyDeleteSounds and looks scary!!
ReplyDeleteAnd happy birthday to your daughther for the 14th, hope she has a good one!!
ohh yes.. we're doing the brunch on SUN and her brother has promised a special treat!
ReplyDeleteHoly cow! Why on earth didn't they close the school??!? I remeber when they didn't close UAB when one of the hurricanes hit us...tornadoes, floods, hail, and all of us hudling in the design room! craziness! That really looks like quite a mess!
ReplyDeleteAlso, happy birthday to your daughter! :D
you need Captain Sig or Andy to guide the island safely out of those waves, how terrifying for the island to see that level of wave action
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And those waves were 2 miles inland! Naaaah don't need those guys, I have a capt of my own :)
ReplyDeleteWe don't need Seattle guys to save our rustic Alaskan asses! If we didn't like it in some sick way, we'd move.
ReplyDeleteI remember Alena calling and in a teensy, tiny wavery voice saying that her house was flooding and she had to evacuate. Her friend Mishcha's dad, Mike, who works for the City, came in his chest waders to make sure her power was turned off. Oh, wait. I think that was the next year!! You pretty much need a boat to get to Alena's house when we get a super storm from the south if we have had much snowfall. I can remember the road to Cookie dough's house and my house out the valley being closed for hours - my husband and I couldn't get home til after 5:30 - because the water was over 3 feet deep.
ReplyDeleteWe call Alena's neighborhood "Little Venice" doesn't taking a gondola to the door sound better than a skiff??
ReplyDeleteIt's trying to be ugly today! Guess it's a tradition!
That was the year Mike needed his waders to get to the house, and the next fall too. Mike was so thoughtful that night, he kept driving by the house all night long and checking on it. Mike Daniels is one of the most dedicated and caring City employees I know, and I'm not just saying that because his daughter is my BFF and birthday twin.
ReplyDeleteI got out of my car in front of my house and the wind knocked me right off my feet onto my back on the ice. It got even funnier when I could not get up because I was slipping and sliding and the wind kept holding me down. Then my hubby and one of our friends came driving up right as I was struggling to my feet against a snow bank for leverage. I am sure they had to stifle their laughing as they literally dragged me to the house. I later heard that the winds were 120 mph and above. Rich said, "anywhere else, they would have given that storm a name" (as in Hurricane). LOL
ReplyDeletehehehe, I did give it a name...but I can't post it here without offending...this is a family oriented blog afterall...
ReplyDeleteI can just imagine what the name is. :) But, yes, CD has a family friendly blog so you cannot sully it.
ReplyDeleteCan't believe my eyes. Currently I'm residing in small Italian city that looks like a picture postcard from Mediterranean. Almost all year it's warm and sunny. Can't remember last time it was snowing. Reading your posts and seeing pictures make me realize that Unalaska is something quite different - so interesting. The island has so incredible landscapes, real untouched nature!
ReplyDeleteFew years ago my friend was living in Unalaska (maybe still does, but I haven't heard from her for a long time). Her name is Evgenia and if my memory serves my she was working in Museum. Talking to her I got to know Unalaska little better.
Really looking forward for your next posts!