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The Steel Bridge during the flood. The Christmas flood of 1964 was "the most severe rainstorm to ever occur over central Oregon, and among the most severe over western Oregon since the late 1870s", according to the National Weather Service office in Portland. [5]
A flood of this size along the creek is expected, on average, only once in 200 years. [10] The inundation was part of a state-wide series of floods known as the Christmas flood of 1964, rated by the National Weather Service as one of Oregon's top 10 weather events of the 20th century. [11]
The deadly Christmas flood of 1964, which would kill 47 people during the holiday season, began with a powerful Pacific Ocean storm that brought record snowfalls in northern California, Oregon and Washington, with accumulations of up to 10 feet (3.0 m) in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
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This major flood between December 18, 1964, and January 7, 1965, [49] also impacted portions of southwest Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and especially northern California. [49] [50] In Oregon seventeen people died as a result of the disaster, and it caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. [50] The flooding covered 152,789 acres (618.32 ...
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