Posts tagged flooding
Maplewood residents appreciated city ...
Thanks to Ms. Spears for this note. It’s always a pleasure to hear how city crews have helped residents. I’m glad the residents in her Maplewood neighborhood fared better than in the floods of the early 1990′s.
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I’m wondering if “Over-dr...
After water-levels came within a foot of the bottom of our bridges in this recent storm (and the Williams bridge remains closed), I was remembering a 1999 discovery that the Corp of Engineers had over-dredged the Cedar River by FOUR FEET in 1999. At the time, the tribes and other fishery interests warned us that we may have created bad cond [...]
Maple Valley Highway single-lane clos...
Maple Valley Highway was briefly closed today, and then reopened with just a single lane closed: Here are the emails we received
UPDATE:
Subject: SR169 now Lane Closure, Bridge Open
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:49:18 -0800
WSDOT has now OPENED the southbound lanes of Maple Valley Highway (SR169) between 135th Ave SE and 140th Way SE, but will [...]
Renton Flood Status
From: Kelley Balcomb-Bartok [ Save Address ]
To: Randy Corman
Subject: FW: River Flooding Conditions on January 7, 2009
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:47:19 -0800
Council,
Here is the current Green River report from Ron Straka that we will be working from to post on the City’s web site.
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The Cedar River is cresting the trail...
From: Julia Medzegian
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:16 PM
To: Don Persson; Greg Taylor; King Parker; MarciePalmer; Corman, Randy; Rich Zwicker; Terri Briere
Subject: Fwd: Cedar River update
Importance: High
>>> Kelly Beymer 11/12/2008 2:51 PM >>>
Hi Leslie,
John just called to report that the river is beginning to crest the trail. With [...]
We had a 500 year flood!
Scientists say that the December flooding was not a 20 year flood, or a 100 year flood, but a 500 YEAR FLOOD! See the story here.
To understand how bad this is, the scale looks something like this:
Winter flood
5 year flood
20 year flood
100 year flood
500 YEAR FLOOD
1000 year flood
Noah’s flood
As a reminder of the rainfall, here [...]
Renton flooding
I found this on youtube. Flooding down in the valley, next to IKEA. This street was allowed to stay open during Monday’s flooding, but I would not have driven through.
The quality of this video is very good for a home video, and the informal narration helps you understand what is happening, but there are some profane exclamations in s [...]
Flood maps are being redefined, and 1...
An article in the Times today talks about King County’s new flood protection tax, and why it has been implemented.
Renton’s own Economic Development Director was quoted, because of the risk the Rivers pose to land in Renton.’
“It’s a really big deal,” said Alex Pietsch, head of Renton’s economic devel [...]