The major storm is over and the creeks and rivers  are slowly beginning to return to normal.  Some of the roads are beginning to open up enough to be able to assess the damages.  I took a trip north toward Lilliwaup and was amazed to find more than a dozen mudslides and water over the roadway in countless places along the short stretch from Hoodsport to Lilliwaup.  Two places were especially hit hard.  The worst is probably Holiday Beach, where the creek came over the banks and diverted itself right down the streets.



Here is what Highway 101 looks like through Holiday Beach the next day, when the water had receded enough to even drive through.  Nearly every home in this stretch along the highway suffered damage from water and mud and the water still continues to flow vigorously across the highway down Susan Ave.  The mud is 1 to 3 feet deep in people's yards.

Up the road just a bit further, the Rest-A-While RV Park, is no longer the pleasant little getaway along the Canal it once was.  Sund Creek became a raging torrent, carrying mud, gravel, and even large stumps and trees to deposit along the way.



Most of the RVs had left before the storm started.  In fact, we noticed a steady stream of RVs heading South during a short break in the snow storm on Sunday.  I'm sure they are very glad that they got out of town while they could.



Unfortunately this RV chose to stay and is now trapped behind a wall of mud.  It is hard to imagine the once park-like setting of this particular spot.  Notice the picnic table which came to rest against the telephone pole, having been transported far from its former spot in the campground.

Much of Highway 101 is still covered in mudslides, though people have been finding ways of driving around, through, and over them.  There are so many of these slides that the highway department has been simply clearing a path along one lane and leaving the rest of the debris blocking the other lane.  It will take weeks to move all the material out, one dump truck load at a time.



For more photos from around the Hoodsport area, see my Facebook album where I have posted several more of my photos.  I will continue to post more in this album as I am able to upload them.  For those of you who looked at the album earlier, be sure and check out the new photos I added today.  I also submitted a few photos to KIRO-TV which they published in a slideshow of viewer photos.  Check out this album for some other photos from around Washington showing problems all throughout Western Washington.  There are some interesting photos here.

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