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OLYMPIA — The Washington state Office of the Secretary of State (OSOS) has invested in a large-scale campaign to highlight the safety and security of the state’s vote-by-mail process ahead of ...
As the storm pushes inland, spotty snow, especially over the mountains in eastern Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, and the northern parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, will ramp up from Sunday to ...
Oso is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, [3] [4] United States. It is located to the west of Darrington, south of the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River and approximately 50 air miles (80 km) from Seattle. The population of Oso was 172 at the 2020 census. [5]
A major landslide occurred 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Oso, Washington, United States, on March 22, 2014, at 10:37 a.m. local time.A portion of an unstable hill collapsed, sending mud and debris to the south across the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, engulfing a rural neighborhood, and covering an area of approximately 1 square mile (2.6 km 2).
PHOTO: Sven Spichiger, an entomologist with the Washington state Department of Agriculture, poses for a photo with an Asian giant hornet from Japan mounted on a pin in Olympia, Wash., May 4, 2020.
From 2009 to 2014, the airport was home to the Washington State Department of Transportation's Aviation Division. [12] In April 2014, the airport saw the arrival of President Barack Obama in Marine One, the presidential helicopter, after flying from Paine Field in Everett. The President then continued by motorcade to Oso, scene of a fatal mudslide.
A family member reported the two men missing to Skamania County police at around 1 a.m. on Dec. 25. A “grueling” three-day search was conducted for the men as over 60 volunteer search and ...
The single greatest cause of failure in Washington has been flooding, frequently associated with severe storms, which then results in destructive bridge scour. [1] [2] [3] According to University of Washington meteorologist Cliff Mass, Western Washington is "particularly vulnerable to such bridge losses, with long floating bridges and the powerful winds associated with our terrain and incoming ...