Floodwaters in the Pacific Northwest inundated homes, forced rescues and shuttered schools Monday as a trio of deluges set rainfall records.
Swollen rivers began to crest at record highs Monday. Photos showed downtown Sumas, Washington, a town along the Canadian border, inundated with floodwaters. Cars were stuck in the streets of Bellingham, Washington, city officials said. Two— most likely resulting from saturated soils — sent debris onto Interstate 5, blocking part of the state’s most important roadway. Winds gusted at nearly 60 mph at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
People walk up to a roadway flooded from the overflowing Skagit River in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., on Monday.Atmospheric river patterns are not uncommon in the region, but the barrage of storms comes during a historically wet fall. And the flooding strikes a region that suffered a heat wave that set records in June, became smothered with wildfire smoke in August and remained abnormally dry for much of summer.
“It’s 100 percent flooded,” Mayor Carla Vandiver said of the town core. Vandiver traveled through the streets of the 300-person town Monday morning by boat, capturing the scene on her cellphone. Vandiver said that most everyone fled Hamilton over the weekend and that she had yet to hear of any rescues.
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