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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Seattle crushes rain record, Portland wet too
SEATTLE (AP) — Soggy Seattle
has broken another rainfall record, and
Portland is inching closer to smashing
its own record.
Seattle measured 44.7 inches of rain
between October and April, making it
the wettest such period since records
began in 1895, the National Weather
Service in Seattle said.
It marks the second year in the row
that the city has topped the historic
rainfall record for that period.
With several days left to go this
month, this year’s record will likely be
padded some more, said Mike McFar-
land, a meteorologist with the service in
Seattle.
“This has been a terrible winter. It
was just wet. There’s no way around
that,” he said Tuesday.
While many Seattleites have grum-
bled about the relentless rain, longtime
resident Meghan Shepard revels in it.
“It’s soothing. I like the color of the
sky when it rains. It’s this beautiful
green. I like being out there,” said the
retired 77-year-old. She has lived all
over the United States, but prefers the
rainy Northwest.
To the whiners, Shepard said: “I
don’t have a lot of patience. If they don’t
like it, move.”
Portland residents are weathering a
winter that’s similarly bleak.
The National Weather Service has
measured 45.5 inches of rain at Port-
land International Airport since Oct. 1,
making it the second-wettest winter in
the city in more than 75 years of record-
keeping.
The city has also had the most days
of rain ever, with 145 days of the wet
stuff since Oct. 1, said Colby Neuman,
a meteorologist for the agency in Port-
land. This year’s February was also the
wettest on record with 10.356 inches of
rain.
Those are numbers Olga Vargas can
BRIEFLY
SALEM (AP) — Some
leaders of Oregon’s Latino
community say they plan
to use a May Day rally
at the Capitol to protest
federal immigration
agents arresting immigrant
farmworkers.
Ramon Ramirez,
president of the Oregon
farmworkers union, known
by its initials in Spanish
as PCUN, said increased
raids would deplete the
work force of farmworkers
to pick crops, damaging
Oregon agriculture.
The PCUN asked
growers and nurseries
to shut down or limit
operations on May 1 to
allow their workers to
attend the march and rally
in support of immigrant
families at the capitol.
Ramirez said he hopes
farmers join the rally at the
capitol in Salem.
President Donald
Trump’s hard line against
illegal immigration
has rattled America’s
agricultural industry, which
fears a crackdown will
deprive it of needed labor.
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File
In this Jan. 18 file photo, pedestrians huddle under umbrellas as they walk
past the Pike Place Market and in view of Elliot Bay, behind, in Seattle.
The National Weather Service says the city has measured 44.67 inches of
rain in the city between October 2016 and so far in April. That makes it the
wettest such period since records began in 1895.
vouch for. The native of Puerto Rico
moved to Portland four years ago and
said the typically rainy winters didn’t
bother her much — until this year.
Mudslides earlier in the winter cut off
roads that she uses for her morning
commute, she said.
“My kids are going nuts. They’re
like, ‘We want to go to the pool! We
want to go to the pool!’” Vargas said.
“Why can’t we break the record for
sunniest? That would be awesome!”
In Seattle, the previous record was
44.5 inches of rain for the October
2015 to April 2016 period. The normal
amount of rain during that period is
usually 30.9 inches.
In the Pacific Northwest, cold-
weather systems move through the
region with dry breaks in between.
McFarland said “we’re missing those
breaks.”
The winter storm season was notable
for back-to-back weather systems that
were slightly wetter and warmer than
normal, he said.
Seattle also set a record number for
wet days from October through April.
They are classified as days with at
least 0.01 inches of precipitation. The
city had 144 wet days from October
through April and only five dry days so
far this month.
Some parts of Washington state have
had it much worse than Seattle.
Quillayute Airport near the town of
Forks along the state’s northwestern
Pacific coast has received 116.1 inches
of rain since Oct. 1.
One resident of the Pacific North-
west, however, took a more practical
attitude toward the never-ending
wetness. Valerie Bass moved to Oregon
43 years ago for college from Southern
California and stayed. Now, she’s so
used to the rain she doesn’t use an
umbrella.
“There has been quite a bit of rain,”
she conceded. “As long as we don’t
have to shovel it, right?”
In the ensuing weeks,
state officials became aware
of the discrepancy between
Zoom Health’s financial
numbers and reality, said
Lisa Morawski, spokesman
for the Oregon Insurance
Division.
She declined to elaborate.
Len
Bergstein,
a
spokesman for Zoom, said
the company has been coop-
erating with state regulators.
Zoom has $9 million in the
bank, more than enough to
handle its responsibilities
to its customers, Bergstein
added.
David Sanders and Albert
DiPiero,
both
medical
to build an integrated health
care model — like a mini-
Kaiser Permanente — in
which Zoom’s insurance
customers were treated at
Zoom clinics.
But the move into
insurance was exquisitely
ill-timed, coming just as the
industry and the public strug-
gled to adjust to the Afford-
able Care Act. Zoom Health
lost $3.8 million in 2015 and
another $4.7 million in 2016.
Last year’s loss slashed its
capital in reserve by half and
left the company perilously
close to the minimum capital
surplus required, according
to state regulators.
doctors and classmates at
the University of Michigan,
founded ZoomCare in 2006.
Sanders, the brash visionary,
hopes his company will help
revolutionize the business
of health care with a chain
of clinics offering same-day
care, online scheduling and
transparent pricing.
The company currently
boasts 35 clinics in the
Portland metro area, Salem,
Vancouver and Seattle. The
clinics are not subject to the
receivership.
ZoomCare diversified into
insurance, which it called
Zoom Health, earlier this
decade. It was attempting
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a group of self-professed
neo-Nazis and a group
of anti-fascist counter
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REGIONAL CITIES
TODAY
THURSDAY
Mostly cloudy,
showers; breezy
Sun and clouds, a
shower or two
56° 41°
55° 38°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Partly sunny and
remaining cool
Increasing
cloudiness
SUNDAY
Spotty morning
showers
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
56° 35°
62° 45°
64° 41°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
61° 42°
63° 45°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
58°
65°
94° (1910)
44°
41°
22° (1924)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.14"
1.59"
0.97"
7.86"
4.31"
4.93"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
62°
67°
91° (1946)
45°
41°
27° (1929)
PRECIPITATION
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
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0.74"
0.71"
5.67"
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3.82"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Apr 26
May 2
Full
May 10
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Seattle
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ALMANAC
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5:51 a.m.
7:56 p.m.
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Wenatchee
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Tacoma
Moses
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Kennewick Walla Walla
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Astoria
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
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Pendleton 47/32
The Dalles 63/45
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La Grande
Salem
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Albany
Corvallis 56/41
56/42
John Day
49/33
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
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Burns
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Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
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Newport
North Bend
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Pendleton
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WORLD CITIES
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WINDS
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Klamath Falls
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Boardman
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Rain this morning, then a
shower or two.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Cold today.
Periods of rain; only in the morning near
the Cascades.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
into tomorrow with a couple of showers.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
A couple of showers; only during the morn-
ing in the north.
Cascades: Periods of rain today; chilly.
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The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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Northern California: Cloudy today with
a shower or two; breezy and cold in the
interior mountains.
SEATTLE (AP) —
Officials say Amtrak
service has been
temporarily disrupted
between Seattle and
Portland because of a
landslide.
Amtrak said Tuesday
that BNSF Railway, which
owns the tracks, has placed
a 48-hour moratorium on
all rail traffic in the area
until Thursday.
The slide occurred
between Vancouver and
Kelso, Washington.
Corrections
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Forecast
ALBANY (AP) — An
Oregon man has been
convicted of unlawfully
taking a trophy bull elk
that had been killed by an
acquaintance.
The Oregon State Police
says 53-year-old Jeffrey
McCraven of Lebanon
was in a search party last
September that was unable
to find the elk on the day it
was shot.
McCraven found the
dead elk the next morning
and shot it with arrows to
make it appear as if he had
killed it. He then validated
his archery elk tag.
McCraven was found
guilty Monday in Linn
County. He was ordered to
forfeit his bow and arrow
to authorities and give the
elk meat and antlers to the
person who killed the elk.
He must also pay $15,000
restitution to the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife and pay more than
$1,000 in other fees.
A judge suspended his
hunting privileges for three
years.
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Oregon man
convicted of
taking already
dead trophy elk
Anti-fascists, neo-
Nazi protesters
exchange shouts
Landslide stops
in Springfield
Amtrak service
SPRINGFIELD (AP)
— Springfield Police made between Seattle
no arrests after monitoring
and Portland
a chant exchange between
Oregon takes Zoom Health Plan into receivership
PORTLAND (AP) —
Oregon insurance regulators
took Zoom Health Plan
into
receivership
after
they “became aware of a
material difference between
the company’s 2016 annual
financial statement and its
actual financial condition,”
state officials said Monday.
The Oregon Insurance
Division has been on site
at the offices of the upstart
Portland insurance company
since April 5, after they took
the company into supervi-
sion. At the time, Zoom had
informed the state it was
exiting the business after
sustaining big losses in 2016.
neo-Nazi group of about
eight people. Police say
the incident broke up about
two hours after it began.
In Oregon,
May Day rally at
Capitol focuses
on immigration
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National Summary: Rain will soak New England, the Northwest and areas from the south-
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and lower Mississippi Valley.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 106° in Carrizo Springs, Texas
Low 20° in Tuolumne Meadows, Calif.
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Baltimore
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Birmingham
Boise
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Chicago
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El Paso
Fairbanks
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Honolulu
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Indianapolis
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