This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The city directed residents on Sunday to move their cars to the even side of residential streets to make room for snowplows that were clearing emergency routes and arterials. Some schools were closed or delayed Monday in Spokane because of road conditions after 5 to 10 inches of snow fell. It turned to rain at lower elevations, including Spokane, on Monday as temperatures rose above freezing. The storm dropped snow last weekend in the mountains and higher elevations in eastern Washington. Grays Harbor County Sheriff Rick Scott said a dozen inmates of the juvenile detention facility on the banks of the Chehalis River in Aberdeen were moved temporarily to the county jail as a precaution. 'If I ran the pump now I would just be pumping water in a circle,' he said Monday. Water was already a foot deep in and around the building. Office building owner Gordon West arrived too late with a truck loaded with sandbags at his building on South I Street in Aberdeen. Some tribal members who live along the Moclips River were evacuated to the Quinault Beach Resort and Casino in Ocean Shores, she said. Flood waters were receding there by Monday evening.Īt Taholah on the coast, the Quinault Indian Nation declared an emergency due to rainfall that caused numerous landslides and washouts, tribal President Fawn Sharp said. Water flooded several streets in downtown Centralia, along the Interstate 5 corridor. In the town of Snoqualmie, about 25 miles east of Seattle, city officials urged a precautionary evacuation of one neighborhood near the Snoqualmie River before the waters began to recede. Even more rain fell in the Olympic Mountains and on the west side of the Cascade Mountains. Nearly 5 inches fell in an area near Issaquah, about 15 miles east of Seattle. In Monroe, at the north end of the Snoqualmie Valley east of Seattle, the total was 6.9 inches. In Hoquiam, nearly 5.4 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, the weather service said. I think that was the grace of God letting us know something was going on.' 'But we got out alive, so that's what matters. It sounded like trees and dirt coming down the hill,' Cynthia Schmid told KOMO-TV. 'It sounded like thunder, but you could hear trees. Police urged residents to leave their homes along a stretch of Queets Avenue at the base of Beacon Hill because of the danger that the whole bluff could give way, Police Chief Jeff Myers said. Rosoff reports that firefighters had to rescue a woman in her 80s and her dog - trapped after their home slid down a hill.

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