I too hope our neighbors to the North can recover, an insane amount of rain in nothing flat.
A slight weather pattern change would have had this area in dire straights.
I'm only 75 miles South of the Canadian border and we only had pretty minor flooding on the Stillaguamish river that drains the local mountain sides.
The Skagit was a whole different deal, we had a good load of snow in the North Cascades above 4'000' just prior to the warm up and "atmospheric river" coming right at us from the tropics.
Mount Vernon area got hit pretty hard, but managed it well.
Seattle City Light had already begun to draw down Ross reservoir, it was at 1588' and within 24 hours it went to full pool at 1602' that's 14' of water in a 23 mile long lake- I would have loved to see some of the water falls up there!
Looks like the spillways were in use for a bit too, I've never seen them used in over 40 years of visiting and camping up there.
I believe that saved the downstream communities a much worse outcome.
Screen shot of Ross reservoir over the last several days:
