We've mentioned lately how we've had a lot of snow. That's melted away for the most part, but Spokane, in eastern Washington, has gotten more than 6 feet of snow the last three weeks.

Spokane has received more than 78 inches of snow — about the height of Michael Jordan — since mid-December. That's far above its average of less than 50 inches for an entire winter. Normally about 16 inches would have fallen at this point. The local record for an entire winter is 93.5 inches set in 1949-50.

Roofs have been collapsing under the weight of the snow, streets are clogged with ice and slush and locals are starting to refer to this as Sno-maggedon.

All the melting snow, combined with several inches of rain the last few days, is causing a lot of flooding and mudslides in the surrounding areas. Fortunately since we're in the main city, the flooding won't affect us at all. Most of the flooding is near the mountains and to the north and south of us. Amtrak service has been canceled too.

Throughout Washington, 62 highways are closed, including all passes in the Cascade Range.

The state has closed down a 21-mile stretch of Interstate 5 in Lewis County. The closure stretches between Exit 68 at Highway 12 and Exit 89. The closure area includes Chehalis and Centralia. It could last up to five days.

In December 2007, floods closed a large stretch of I-5 in Lewis County for four days.

The NWS says 22 rivers in Western Washington are at or above flood stage and major flooding is expected on 19.

The weather has just been really crazy lately. It's also been really windy and the last two days my building has been making creaking noises. Anyway, we shouldn't have any trouble in our immediate area and we don't have any plans to travel very far on the freeways any time soon.