Above screencap from the Seattle Times. Evacuation orders have gone out, via phone text messages to those in the flood plains of the Washington rivers.
And, apparently, the flood is expected to top Mount Vernon's floodwall, which could result in disaster for downtown Mount Vernon, which lies well below river level when the Skagit River run high, but, til now, has never run high enough to top flood prevention measures, which, before the floodwall, consisted of a wall of sandbags.
When I woke up my phone this morning I saw I had a text message from my little brother, Jake.
Jake's text message included the above image, along with the following message...
"Just got an evacuation notice on my phone for Conway and Mount Vernon area."
When I read the message I assumed the image was the evacuation notice. When I got the image off the phone I realized it was a photo my little brother took from KOMO News, on his TV.
I can stream KOMO, KING and KIRO on my TV. Methinks I shall be doing a lot of that the next couple days.
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