The Calm After the Storm

Being a native of Chicago, I tend to scoff at what counts as "heavy rain" here in western Washington State. Here, it can take a couple days, if not a week, to generate the sort of numbers that a good Midwest thunderstorm would dump in an hour or two.

Despite the fact that the rainfall here strikes me as somewhat anemic, it can still be quite a lot of water. And it's enough to move quite a bit of material.

Like the trees in the photo above. This particular photo doesn't really give an idea of just how many trees there are, but there are a lot of them, deposited here because there's a slight bend in the river that allows debris to accumulate. It's a useful reminder the weather doesn't have the be violent, to be powerful.