Tagged: Willamette

Oregon Rising Waters
2:19 pm
Fri January 20, 2012

Willamette Valley Copes With Flooding

Credit Chris Lehman / Northwest News Network
People fill sandbags at a City of Salem maintenance facility.

SALEM, Ore. – Rising flood waters have led to evacuations and road closures in the Willamette Valley. In the town of Turner, city officials have encouraged all residents to evacuate. Shelters are open in Salem for those displaced by flood waters. Salem residents Mark and Andi Bean were eyeing the rising waters. They were filling up sandbags at a city of Salem maintenance facility.

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