Washingtonians

[ReiMiraa]

well looks like this paper might have potentially saved my life.

a favorite spot on the backside of stevens pass i love to go had an avalanche and 3 people are dead.... i may sorta know one of the people who might be dead but waiting to hear who it is.

sometimes 14+ inches of snow overnight is too good to be true.

 

[Zgoatlady]

Oh my what a funny story....
This is most definetly the Hoot Owl we have here.
Cannot believe the Huge wingspread on these birds!
In Northern CA at Grandmother's, we had hundreds of small owls that made the most awful Screetch & gumbled cocaphony of wierd hair raising noises all night for years that Grandpa invited his sons to come one week end & 'thin' the population.
I was just a small kid, but remember the screaming & odd noises were constant, all night long.
The family of birds lived in 2 big Oaks in Grandpa's yard...and we could spot what seemed like hundreds of pairs of owl eyes in the trees at night............
I do not remember much else.
But the population was thinned.
And the recordings of the screetch owl and not a screetch at all, but a soft tweet type chirp noise.
These birds that screamed so aweful it would raise every hair on your body & goose bumps all over as if ice water had been dribbled down the back must have been Barn Owls.
Imagine, walking softly, flash light in hand, into a big huge old creepy spider-web covered barn...and hearing that !!
Scare the day lights right out of ya !!!!!!!!!!!!

Listen here:

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/barn_owl/id/nc

Makes me goose pimply all over !!!!!!!!!!

I think if I heard that outside by myself Id wet myself

 

[RustyHen]

Thank you for your ideas but I had one myself. After listening to StumpFarmer's tale of calving, I thought what the heck I've delivered stuck puppies and kittens before, so I grabbed my rubber gloves and a bottle of dish-soap this AM and gave it a try, sure enough with lots of soap and some wiggling I got one hip at a time through the wire.... Success!!!!

 

[Delilah1337]

I almost went through there this morning coming from Marysville. I feel so blessed that we didn't take that route home. My thoughts and prayers go out to those poor families

 

[RustyHen]

Sorry CG and CR I have not mastered the new quote system yet. I meant this to go to both of you about the muskrat the was stuck in our fence

Thank you for your ideas but I had one myself. After listening to StumpFarmer's tale of calving, I thought what the heck I've delivered stuck puppies and kittens before, so I grabbed my rubber gloves and a bottle of dish-soap this AM and gave it a try, sure enough with lots of soap and some wiggling I got one hip at a time through the wire.... Success!!!!

 

[ReiMiraa]

I almost went through there this morning coming from Marysville. I feel so blessed that we didn't take that route home. My thoughts and prayers go out to those poor families

it happened on the backside of the ski area, not near hwy 2.
it is a fun out of bounds area with a lot of powder...

 

[Delilah1337]

Ah ok, I haven't been able to hear the whole story. How/Why did the people get back there if the area is out of bounds? Mind you, I have been known to cross into a few "No no" areas when I wanted to explore, I am just curious their experience with the area. No matter the case, I still feel for the families who lost their loved ones today.

 

[ReiMiraa]

one place i know of is a hike out area after you go up tye mill and ski across the ridge.

one of the guys who died i sorta know and he was an experienced skier. he has also worked for steven pass for a long time doing a lot of human relations and marketing stuff.
he will be missed.

 

[pettec63]

Quote: How many RIR did I send.?




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[TheReidHomestead]

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Thanks Jeanine! I'm typing up my email to the kids now after pruning trees all day. I will include these!