Heavy rainfall in western Washington this week caused rivers to inundate towns and forced 100,000 people to evacuate. On Friday, rescue crews were plucking people from atop a home in Sumas, Wash., near the U.S.-Canada border, after waters rose faster than expected, and several small towns were cut off from the rest of the state.
No one has died in the flooding so far. But the cost of damage to homes, businesses and farmland in one of the Pacific Northwest’s agricultural hubs could total tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.
Forecasters warned that a second major storm would hit the Northwest on Sunday and drop more rain on already saturated ground, raising the risk of more flooding and landslides.
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