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A-28 — Shelton-Mason County Journal — Thursday, Jan. 13, Above: Kneeland Park in downtown Shelton lies under several inches of water Friday morning. Journal photo Justin Johnson Below, a car sits sunken in water adjacent to McReavy Road in Union on Friday. Journal photo Bottom, water from the Tahuya River reaches the bottom of the Northshore Road bridge. Floodwaters inundated homes and structures on the Tahuya Peninsula. Photos courtesy of North Mason Regional Fire Authority , . continued from page A-1 and into homes and yards and hindered the nat— ural flows of creeks and rivers.” Bakken wrote that in NMRFA’s damage as- sessment, it counted 35 homes that were affect- ed to varying degrees flooding. A section of N orthshore Road in the 16000 block was closed for about four hours due to de- bris washing over the road. Bakken wrote that no other closures were reported; “Our crews helped to fill and distribute sand- bags all along the Northshore Road as well as as- sist with the damage assessment that is required for agencies and the public to be reimbursed for damages,” Bakken wrote. “NMRFA crews also spent five hours at the St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in Tahuya helping with extensive flood- ing in the basement of the church. While the flood event was occurring crews were called to assist with two separate fully involved structure fires which were put out without injury.” On the west side of Hood Canal, where Lake Cushman residents were still digging out from snow that 'began Christmas Day, rain-soaked snow caused several structures to collapse. “It’s been a trying couple of weeks for everyone up here,” Aaron Nix, general manager of Lake Cushman Maintenance Co., wrote in a Monday email to the Journal. “Our crews worked both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and for nine FloOding: 35 homes} on Tahuya-Peninsula affected ’ days straight in order to try to keep our roads open within the developments around Cushman. “The snow event after the new year is the one we all have been struggling with and we are just - now catching up, widening our roads — freeing in the Cushman developments.” Nix wrote that the maintenance company them of Snow .— to improve ingress/egress with-z was aware of “a, couple of collapsed structures” such as mobile homes. and-detached carports, and that the company’s security team is trying to check on all areas of the developments it can reach safely. ' Nix added there were _“lots of trees down and cleanup work needed moving forward,” and that it was still difficult to maneuver near the north. and west areas of the lake. Hoodsport Fire & EMS and LCMC assisted in the evacuation of a mobile home in the area damaged by the snow. In a Monday news release, Mason County Public Health said it received reports of sewer system overflows and spills in several areas of the county due to the flooding. , The release identified overflowing manholes near Park Street in downtown Shelton flowing into Goldsborough Creek and Oakland Bay and a system spill onto a private beach at Harstene Point. It also reported a system spill near the North 'Bay sewer system treatment plant in Al- lyn thathad no known contact to waterways.