1996 High Water Flood: Difference between revisions
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==== Thursday February 8, 1996 ==== | |||
<u>Weather Update</u> | |||
Rain this evening ...locally heavy ...turning to showers, lows to mid 40s | |||
Willamette - 28.8 feet | |||
Action Taken | |||
Mayor calls for carpenters to bring their tools and volunteer to come either side of the | |||
Willamette under the Burnside Bridge to reinforce river walls | |||
Willamette Seawall provided 430 concrete barriers, 400 sheets of plywood and 1200Lft | |||
2x6 | |||
<u>Areas of Concern</u> | |||
Actual evacuation of Johnson Creek area | |||
Fear of breakaway houseboats on Columbia & Willamette | |||
Sauvie Island flooding | |||
Sandbag locations established at 12 places around city | |||
Red Cross identifies five shelters | |||
Columbia River dikes | |||
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