One year ago today, it was the December Deluge

One year ago today – there’s really no elegant way to put this – West Seattle and environs got dumped on. Tons of rain. Second-wettest day on record: almost 4″. That photo above, by Kristin, was taken on Juneau between Delridge and 26th, as she reported in a memorable quote, “The creek has burst free!” This gives us a chance to mention something we forgot to report before — a couple months ago, a county employee contacted us asking for permission to use that photo for the cover of the King County Flood District Opportunity Fund application packet. We e-mailed Kristin to see if she’d mind; she said “sure,” and this was the result:

By the way, if you want to look back at the soggy memories of the December (’07) Deluge, including many photos shared by WSB’ers (including the iconic Allstar Car), we put all the coverage (including followups) in this archive, newest to oldest.

WS December 3, 2008 (1:02 pm)

we lived behind this house in the picture for almost 3 years. it flooded SO many times. I was out there this day helping sandbag… before it changed owners, pat was always keeping the drain clean…it was like her daily job. Someone needs to do something… this shouldn’t be ok. people shouldnt have to worry about a heavy rain and if a man made creek is going to flood their home.