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Heavy rain across parts of Washington caused heavy flooding in Mount Vernon on November 16.This footage, filmed by John Manso shows a road near the Skagit River inundated by floodwaters.According ...
The Skagit River (/ ˈ s k æ dʒ ɪ t / SKAJ-it) is a river in southwestern British Columbia in Canada and northwestern Washington in the United States, approximately 150 mi (240 km) long. The river and its tributaries drain an area of 1.7 million acres (690,000 hectares) of the Cascade Range along the northern end of Puget Sound and flows ...
Skagit and Clallam counties also experienced major flooding events. [86] The Skagit River crested at 36.98 feet (11.27 m), near a record of 37.4 feet (11.4 m) set in 1990, but was held back in Mount Vernon by a downtown flood barrier installed in 2016. [87] The town of Hamilton was evacuated to shelters operated by the Red Cross on November 15 ...
This lack of recovery time is a major factor in the increased risk of flooding. The first atmospheric river moved into the region Saturday and Sunday, dumping 7 to 9 inches of rain in spots from ...
May 8—The latest modeling of a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake along the West Coast suggests a more powerful tsunami and more flooding than previously expected in areas that include Skagit ...
The bridge carries a section of Interstate 5 (I-5) over the Skagit River between Mount Vernon and Burlington, in Washington state, about 60 miles (97 km) north of Seattle. I-5 is the primary highway between the metropolitan areas of Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia .
The difficulty of access from the south led to the 1891 construction of a narrow wagon road along the Sauk River. The Sauk wagon road ran from Sauk City on the Skagit River to the mines at Monte Cristo. A key stop on this road was the trading post at Orient, at the forks of the Sauk River. Today this area is known as Bedal. [11]
Current estimates from the Northwest River Forecast Center show that the Nooksack River is expected to crest about 3 feet below flood stage in Ferndale on Jan. 29 and remain high for a couple of days.