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

[Faye Weber]

Yes, I remember the Vanport Floods.  After the waters had subsided, my father took us for a drive through the area.  I recall seeing houses sitting askew on their foundations.  I was 7 at the time and living in Maplewood.

~~Faye (Steele) Weber  
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  Actually Bob, it was May 31, 1948. The first dike that broke took out Vanport and somewhat East. The second dike broke 2 weeks later taking out the airport, my parents and grandparents houses, and went way out past Blue Lake.

  I got out of helping with the cleanup as I was pregnant with my first baby and couldn't take the required tetanus shot.

  Carroll (Cooper) Summers
    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
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