On
Thursday 18 October
We had power outages, & my sister said she had a rough ferry ride
from Bainbridge Island to Seattle.
Here
are some amazing photos (not taken by me) of the Whidbey Island
Mukilteo
to
These Issaquah 130 Class ferries
are over 300 feet long and 78 feet wide and weigh about 2477 tons
(4,954,000 lbs) unloaded.
During
storms like this the crew plots a course which puts the ferry in the
least vulnerable position, but at some point they have to change
course, and "come about." When they did the storm made up for
lost time.
After this run the ferry system stopped running at full capacity and
ran 1/2 empty for the rest of the night.
Note that there are no longer cars visible in the last shot. I'm sure
they were washed into the cars behind them.
Each photo below was taken 0.3 seconds apart (hand held, 320mm).
