Oregon Flood February 1996

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Video along Highway 20 between Corvallis and Albany of the Oregon Flood February 1996. • 0:00 Northwest 1st Street near Tyler St • 1:42 Highway 20 near Byron Place looking east at Trysting Tree Golf Course • 2:37 traveling north on Highway 20 near NE Garden Ave • 3:35 traveling north on Highway 20 near Rainwater Lane • 4:04 Heading east on highway 20 over Ellsworth St Bridge • 4:12 Monteith Park near Water Ave and Washington St • 4:58 New West bound bridge at Harrison Blvd • 5:19 Trysting Tree Golf Course • 6:04 Highway 34 was under water • Monteith Park • The Willamette Valley Flood of 1996 was part of a larger series of floods in the Pacific Northwest of the United States which took place between late January and mid-February, 1996. It was Oregon's largest flood event in terms of fatalities and monetary damage during the 1990s. The floods spread well beyond Oregon's Willamette Valley, extending west to the Oregon Coast and east toward the Cascade Mountains. Significant flood damage also affected the American states of Washington, Idaho (particularly the north of the state) and California. The floods were directly responsible for eight deaths in Oregon, as well as over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest. Three thousand residents were displaced from their homes.[1] • • An unusual confluence of weather events made the floods particularly severe. The winter season preceding the floods had produced abnormally high rainfall and relatively low snowfall. The heavy rains saturated the ground and raised river levels throughout January 1996. In late January, a heavy snowstorm padded snowpacks throughout the region. This was followed by a deep freeze that lasted for six to ten days. The new layer of snow was quickly melted by a warm subtropical jetstream which arrived on February 6. The jetstream brought along further rains. The combination of the additional rain, the saturated ground, and the melting snowpacks engorged dozens of streams and tributaries, which in turn flooded into the region's major rivers.[2] • • • • Communities along the main stem include Springfield and Eugene in Lane County; Harrisburg in Linn County; Corvallis in Benton County; Albany in Linn and Benton counties; Salem in Marion County; Newberg in Yamhill County; Oregon City, West Linn, Milwaukie, and Lake Oswego in Clackamas County; and Portland in Multnomah and Washington counties.

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