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Salem has activated sandbag locations in central and West Salem due to the possibility of excessive rainfall and minor flooding.
High water floods a pathway in Minto Brown Island Park on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. High water from rain caused the level of the Willamette River to reach near action levels and caused trails ...
U.S. 101 has closed to all vehicles from milepost 22 to 25 — from Seaside to the junction with U.S. 26 — due to flooding during high tide Tuesday morning.
The floods spread beyond Oregon's Willamette Valley, extending west to the Oregon Coast and east toward the Cascade Mountains. Significant flood damage also impacted the American states of Washington, Idaho (particularly the north of the state) and California. The floods were directly responsible for eight deaths in Oregon, as well as over US ...
The 1861 flood peaked at 635,000 cubic feet per second (18,000 m 3 /s)—more than the Mississippi River usually discharges in the 21st century—and inundated some 353,000 acres (1,430 km 2) of land. [15] [118] [119] This flood destroyed the town of Linn City. When the flood ended on December 14, only three homes remained standing in Linn City.
People walk with umbrellas as rain falls in Salem in 2019. Another round of heavy rainfall will hit Oregon over the next few days, but it’s probably not enough to bring flooding, said National ...
[1] [2] The storm also brought heavy rains, producing widespread record flooding throughout the region, and was blamed for at least 18 deaths. [3] [4] Meteorologists at the Oregon Climate Service named the storm in January 2008, drawing from the Great Gale of 1880, a similar powerful storm that affected the region in 1880. [5] [6]
Another system of heavy rain will lead to some minor flooding across NW Oregon. Meanwhile, ski areas are back on 'standby' amid warm weather ... The Willamette River in Salem is forecast to reach ...