Oregon's Department of Geology put all of western Oregon on notice for increased potential of landslides Monday. Across the Columbia River, state geologists in Washington reclassified Pacific and Clark counties to "high hazard" for landslides.
Tucker Wilson, 14, and his grandfather Philip Berg, take a short break from cleaning mud up off their 120-acre wheat and hay farm near Helix, Ore.
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Jack Bascomb is the mayor of Helix. He doesn’t know how the small Oregon town is going to pay for all the cleanup of the mud that inundated town this week.
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Meghan Schroeder, 20, with the hose is the head lifeguard of Helix’s city pool. She and Delaney Wahl, 18, and others have been cleaning up the pool after mud inundated the small town.
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Jaelynne McCallum, 15, takes a lunch break from cleaning out Helix’s city hall from a torrent of mud that washed into the small Oregon town.
