home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=90TT0181>
- <title>
- Jan. 22, 1990: American Notes:The Northwest
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 22, 1990 A Murder In Boston
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- THE NORTHWEST
- From Drizzle To Deluge
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-