Another Round Of Heavy Rain Expected In Oregon

The wind, combined with the soggy ground, led to trees coming down in some areas, including southeast Portland, where a woman was killed when a tree fell on her home.

“All of a sudden I heard a big woosh come down and next thing I know we got tree down”, resident Dale Hall said.

Choumxay said he ran outside, made it around the tree, and raced to his neighbors’ front door.

Roseburg saw. 56 inches of rain for the 24-hour period ending at 3:53 a.m. today, the third day in a row of about a half inch of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Medford.

Seven people who were swept into the Puyallup River from a riverbank homeless camp in western Washington have been rescued.

Firefighters went vehicle-to-vehicle to check on occupants and some people were evacuated by boat. The camp was a temporary home for several dozen RVs and camper-trailers. “Through the summer, we had the driest summer on record and now we’re making up for all the rain we missed in the summer time”.

The downpours had officials evacuating a neighborhood in Clackamas County, and the American Red Cross opened a shelter there.

Some schools and businesses are delayed or dismissing early.

Utility Puget Sound Energy reported about 45,000 customers were without electricity on Wednesday morning after fierce winds and hail hit the Seattle area.

PGE said crews worked through the night to restore power as quickly as they could.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for much of Western Washington, as well as high wind warnings for the coast and other areas.

Water levels in Nehalem River near Foss will reach about 10 feet above the flood stage by 4 a.m. Wednesday.

Residents in the Portland area and throughout northwest OR and southwest Washington were pummeled by a second barrage of heavy rains, as rain continued to soak already saturated ground, bringing some area creeks and rivers to flood stage.

Pouring rain and clogged storm drains caused flooding in the streets near the corner of SE 12th and Hawthorne in Portland Ore., Monday, Dec. 7, 2015.

Major flooding was predicted for the Snoqualmie, Snohomish and Skykomish rivers north of Seattle, Haner said.

A mudslide has closed State Route 2 just west of Leavenworth in the Cascade Range.

The powerful storm saturating the metro area is also expected to drench the mountains with rain and Oregon Coast with wind and rain. In Kalama, Washington, severe flooding left much of the city underwater, triggering landslides and forcing several rescues, CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reports.