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- NATION, Page 27American NotesTHE NORTHWESTFrom Drizzle To Deluge
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- Residents of the drizzly Pacific Northwest are accustomed
- to wet weather, but the floods that struck western Oregon and
- Washington last week were something else. In one 24-hour
- period, 6 in. of rain fell in Oregon and 4.5 in. in Washington,
- causing rivers to overflow their banks, driving thousands from
- their homes and closing highway I-5 for three days. At least
- three people were killed.
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- People waded through waist-high water in the streets of
- Tillamook, Ore., and Governor Neil Goldschmidt declared a state
- of emergency. "There were old people who have lived here all
- their lives saying they'd never seen anything like it," said
- Robert Berg, public works director in Washington's Lewis
- County. "This is right up there with Mount St. Helens."
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