Didn't get around to posting these the other day from a trip through Oregon's coastal range, a short trail named Bloom Lake on Hwy 26. Only thing we saw blooming was a skunk cabbage (not pictured), but we did find a few cool mosses and mushrooms

#pacnw #mosstodon #mushtodon

βœ… Snowy winter hike

Today's finds #PacNW

Did the I-5/I-205 loop today for the first time, it was dope, great weather

#pacnw #pdx #vanwa #biketooter

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Residents urged to evacuate after levee breach south of Seattle
https://apnews.com/article/pacific-northwest-levee-floods-washington-5a5d085e96e98d24c96a889b4d7d8e6c

Residents urged to evacuate after levee breach south of Seattle

Residents near a breached levee in Washington state were told to evacuate, just hours after an evacuation alert was lifted for residents near another broken levee in the same county. Police in the city of Pacific urged people in the evacuation area near the White River to β€œGo Now!” early Tuesday. The National Weather Service office in Seattle issued a flash flood warning for the levee breach on the river in King County. On Monday, crews used sandbags to shore up an earthen levee south of Seattle after a small section failed after a week of heavy rains. That breach prompted an evacuation order that was later lifted.

AP News

@volts.wtf I maintain we in the #PacNW need a term for looking at a 5,7, or 10 day forecast and seeing rain every day.

A Zoloft or "The Dampening". Something

Found a few beauties out today , #foraging in autumn's last twilight πŸ‚ #pacnw #mushrooms

I’m reading about the catastrophic #flooding in the #PacNW. This is looking really bad for more than 100,000 people. If any of my friends are being impacted, are running gofunds, or need rescue, please let me know and I’ll boost and help as I can.

We all know Trump isn’t going to help blue states, we as fellow Americans will probably have to rescue our countrymen ourselves.

https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/atmospheric-river-flooding-washington-oregon-climate

Water rescues, evacuations in Washington as rivers rise toward record high levels

Here’s the latest forecast for how much rain and snow will fall and which rivers could reach flood stage. Follow for live updates

CNN
@arisummerland I posted a few days ago but my lilac tree just had a few blooms too... Normally it'll do this in April or May, not late November. #pacNW
I swear I wasn't even looking. You gotta believe me. I took the long way back, up some stairs, through a small park, a lush forest recovering from a clearcut decades ago... And it was just like *bam* *pow* from the left, from the right, edible forest mushrooms were all but whapping me over the head on my walk today. #pacnw #oregoncoast
I have more than enough #mushrooms from my foraging already... today was more about the hike and taking in the marvels of the forest #pacnw #centralcascades #mushtodon