Hype for the Future 78M: City of Mount Vernon, Washington
Overview The City of Mount Vernon is located on the north side of the Greater Seattle area in the Pacific Northwest to serve as the county seat of Skagit County, Washington, in the United States. The most notable feature of Mount Vernon is the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival; however, as with a number of communities of similar size within the State and into Oregon, the community is also home to a number of art galleries within the general downtown area.Here is the Washington State code regarding state and local law enforcement agency interactions with ICE.
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https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=10.93.160
This is from the Washington State Attorney General's office regarding individual rights with regards to immigration enforcement.
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https://www.atg.wa.gov/know-your-rights-civil-immigration-enforcement-washington
Across Washington, communities are concerned about increased immigration enforcement activity. This guidance summarizes general information about limitations on federal immigration enforcement power, limits on state and local agencies from participating in immigration enforcement, and the rights of individuals and entities within Washington. This guidance is based on current law as of the date indicated below and it is not legal advice. As always, individuals, agencies, and other entities are encouraged to discuss all legal issues and questions with their attorneys.
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Well. The Mount Vernon floodwall held. Or has, so far, but the record-setting crest has passed so the prospects are looking pretty good.
Now to reinforce it because worse will be coming.
Also: People were wondering how much of the 100,000 people under evacuation order were in Skagit County, since that number covered the entire affected area, not just Skagit.
I finally got an answer:
78,000
That's the Skagit County floodplain number by itself. The other 22,000 were in other parts of the flooding area, particularly Snohomish County, but also some areas in King County up around North Bend and also areas around Green River.
#wawx #SkagitCounty #WashingtonState #flood #floods #flooding #cascadia
Flooding has reportedly crossed Highway 20 in Sterling, west of Burlington. If you are still there, somehow, GET OUT NOW. Recommendation is to evacuate via Collins or Gardner, then west to I-5.
People may want to notice how close this is to Burlington, which has very little elevation advantage over Sterling, if any.
Source: https://m.ai6yr.org/@easwatch/115703997607996422
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A lot of good drone footage from the flooding here:
https://phire.place/@paparatti/115703887394789729
(mostly posting this to add more tags, OP used perfectly good ones but here have more)
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Some good drone footage here of Hamilton, WA in Skagit County. They're right next to the Skagit river, and just from looking back and forth from Google Maps (thanks to that big ugly building near the bright blue house), as of this morning they're under 3-5ft of water. Bad times. Most of those people will probably have to live somewhere else through this winter, because I doubt anything is getting remediated there soon. Hopefully everyone evacuated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwi672gcXqo #PNW #flood #WaWx
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