Update Monday morning: Total weekend rain in Maple Leaf = 3.45 inches.
Update 11:20 a.m.
Another .75 inches of rain in Maple Leaf since dawn.
Tanner enjoys the Maple Leaf Playfield pond.
We had 2.65 inches of rain overnight in Maple Leaf – that’s a Lot. And wind gusts to 25.3 mph.
The National Weather Service issued a rare urban flood advisory, and in a release issued mid-morning, Seattle Public Utilities warned that “more than three inches of rain has fallen in the past 24 hours — pushing the Seattle area well over the landslide threshold.”
To report flooding or blocked drains or heavy ponding in the street, please call SPU at (206) 386-1800.
Slides have already knocked out all Amtrak service except Portland-Eugene through Monday.
Rain is expected to diminish this afternoon as a cold front moves in. “Monday is looking mainly dry,” according to Seattle’s National Weather Service office. The next system, bringing cold rain, is expected after midnight Monday.
Because the flooded, muddy park is so full of other people and children that a leash is the only way to protect people from a vicious…Labrador retriever.
leash law…