Found on Oregon Live 2/7/2001
SCOPE OF FLOODWATERS
-- River crests at 3 p.m. Feb. 9, 1996
Willamette: 28 feet, 7 inches (top of harbor wall, 29 feet; flood stage, 18 feet)
Columbia: 27 feet, 2 inches at Vancouver, Wash. (flood stage, 16 feet)
Tualatin: 18 feet, 4 inches at West Linn (flood stage, 13 feet, 2 inches)
Willamette: 19 feet, 6 inches at upper Oregon City (flood stage, 14 feet)
-- Oregon rivers reaching or exceeding flood stage: 26
-- Counties declared disaster areas in Oregon: 17, plus the Warm Springs Reservation
-- Counties declared disaster areas in Washington: 13
-- Deaths in Oregon: 8
-- Deaths in Washington: 5
-- People evacuated in Oregon: 22,000, including 10,000 in Keizer
-- People evacuated in Washington: 7,000
-- Homes damaged or destroyed in Oregon: 2,200
-- Homes damaged or destroyed in Clark County, Wash.: 700 DAMAGE ESTIMATES
Costs of the flood are inexact and spread out among several federal and state agencies. Oregon's Office of Emergency Management has completed nearly 3,000 financial recovery projects and expects to complete its role by the end of this month. Some of the following figures are estimates.
-- Federal Emergency Management Agency contributions in Oregon: $104.3 million
-- Small Business Administration contributions in Oregon: $71 million
-- National Flood Insurance contributions: $29.5 million
-- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recovery costs: $10.3 million
-- Cost to repair Oregon highways: $166 million
-- Cost to repair Washington highways: $150 million
-- Hardest-hit Oregon counties (per FEMA Public Assistance Program contributions): Tillamook, $12.1 million; Clackamas, $7.7 million; Multnomah, $6.9 million; Columbia, $5.9 million
OTHER FACTS AND FIGURES
-- Sandbags given out in Oregon by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: 664,600
-- Sandbags along Portland's harbor wall: 40,000
-- Mudslides in Portland: 100-plus
-- Points on state highways closed by mud or water: 180
-- 1 million tons of mud, rocks and cobbles smothered Interstate 84
-- OMSI: Sandbags used, 5,628; days closed because of flooding, 107; damage to structure and electrical system, $1.3 million
-- Highway dividers used: 438
-- Panels erected to contain flooding at Portland's harbor wall (4-by-8-foot plywood): 600
-- Trail's End travails: The end of the Oregon Trail was essentially ground zero for the flood. In a 25- to 30-square-block area of downtown Oregon City, 100 businesses and 25 homes were damaged, as the water depth reached 5 feet, 6 inches at Washington and 15th streets and 15 feet 6 inches in the parking lot of the End of Oregon Trail Interpretive Center.
-- Ports closed: The Port of Vancouver and others on the Columbia and Willamette rivers.
-- Days the Columbia River was closed to commercial traffic: five
-- Amtrak was shut down, and Greyhound buses went nowhere when highways U.S. 26, Interstate 84 and U.S. 30 were closed by mudslides.
-- Number of trains Union Pacific railroad had stacked up between Seattle and Cheyenne, Wyo., because of flooding: 78
-- Interstate 5 was closed at Chehalis, Wash., with one lane opening four days after the flood peaked.
-- Portland's Burnside and Steel bridges remained in the open position for several days.
-- The Red Cross, with 566 workers and volunteers, served more than 90,000 meals and housed 6,000 people.
-- Oregon National Guard troops activated: 797
-- Prison inmates who volunteered to help: 119
-- Mist residents cut off from rest of civilization: 200
-- Milk cows killed by flooding in Tillamook County: 1,200
-- Norm Maves Jr.
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