[or-roots] May 30, 1948 Vanport Flood Remembered

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The Vanport Flood washed away Vanport City, the largest public housing
project ever built in the United States, at 4:05 p.m. on May 30, 1948, when
the dike holding back the Columbia River gave way. The city, at one time
responsible for housing nearly 50,000 people after construction was
completed
in 1943, was underwater by nightfall. Fifteen people died in the flood.
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