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hortly after sunset, in a campsite just above an Olympic Peninsula beach, I flip a switch to engage the RV generator and think, âIâm
that person now.â The person Iâve long scorned, who breaks the silence of a national park campground with a mechanical rumble to run my water pump. This lifelong tent camper always considered âgeneratorâ a bad word.
But on a chilly off-season night like this, analog camping would demand my hardiest expedition gear for even moderate comfortâor this propane-heated mobile studio apartment. I hurry through the dinner dishes so I can silence the generator and retreat to a queen-size bed that, though it folds in two for storage, beats my home mattress by a mile.
Flooding, landslides impact Washington coastal communities
Q13 s Steve Kiggins reports.
PACIFIC BEACH, Wash. - Steady rain fell along Washington state’s beaches Tuesday. The winter weather pushed rivers to run high, flooding roadways and causing landslide to impact travel and large waves are blamed for killing one person in Pacific Beach earlier this week.
Flooding near Ocean City covered a portion of SR 109 leaving the highway inundated with water. State Troopers said the water was deep enough to close the road.
South of Cosmopolis along U.S. Highway 101 a landslide closed the northbound lanes for most of the day before crews could clear the debris.
A 54-year-old female from Oak Harbor was killed after she and her husband were knocked down by a large wave and a log rolled over them. Around 10:30 a.m. Sunday, the two were walking along the beach near Pacific Beach State Park when a set of waves came in. The two stood on a log to try and avoid the waves, but a large wave knocked the couple off the log. The log then rolled over them. The female had "several areas of trauma" and stopped.