[or-roots] Snow, Floods, Etc VanPort)

[dgoodma02 at comcast.net]

I was in Portland (near Mt Tabor) When the VanPort Flood took out the Airport and surrounding lowlands and housing, and racetrack!  What a mess! I managed to drive by it a couple of times.  Anyone else old enough to remember it? I believe it was 1947.  it was caused by a very heavt sbow pack in the mountains and a very prolonged warm rain. Blew out he Dike and flodded the whole area.

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Duane R.(Bob) Goodman
University Place, Washington