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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 , .
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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.