A barrage of Pacific storms is compounding flooding damage and keeping travel conditions volatile across the Pacific Northwest, with western Washington at the center of overlapping hazards: flood watches and river warnings, debris slides, mountain blizzard conditions, and high winds driving power outages.
Local officials and forecasters are warning that even short “breaks” in rainfall are not providing meaningful relief because soils are saturated and rivers are responding quickly to each new surge of precipitation.
In western Washington, FOX 13 Seattle’s rolling coverage early Wednesday described a region “grappling with flooding across the region,” alongside continuous rain, wind, and mountain snow expected to create broad impacts.
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