SEATTLE - When you hear chain saws and chippers in November, it usually means one thing, the rain's brought down another tree.
Such is the case in this neighborhood just south of the Ship Canal as an old tree comes lose from soft soaked ground. Thankfully, nobody was home.
"I'm certainly worried about neighbors those folks up there," said neighbor Michelle Olson.
Michelle Olson, lives across 14th Street East in Seattle.
She's seen it all before, only worse as landslides bring trees down across the road.
"Every year or so a tree will come down and take out the powerlines there.
It's soggy in Seattle, Everett and in Tacoma. But Seattle has an accute problem with landslides because so much city is built up against miles of bluffs.
In the Alki neighborhood of West Seattle, home and condo owners are petitioning the city to mitigate the effects of the slides. So far, no slides Wednesday.
But there are along the railroad tracks between Seattle and Everett where slides and the threat of more have stopped Amtrak and Sounder passenger trains between those cities.
In Auburn a small slide with trees came down onto one land off the West Vallley Highway.
So far, it's all been small, at least so far Wednesday.
But when it rains for days on end, the experts consult a graph by the U.S. Geological Survey. The graph shows a red diagonal line, a threshold. If the symbol, for Seattle, Everett or Tacoma goes above that line, the likelihood of slides goes up. And all three of those cities are above that line.
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