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THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2021 A3 LOCAL, STATE & REGION Immediate Cash for GOLD & SILVER Northwest storm leaves outages, possible flooding Face masks required 4 DAYS ONLY The Associated Press SEATTLE — A winter storm that blanketed the Pacific Northwest with ice and snow was causing lingering prob- lems Monday, with hundreds of thousands of people in Ore- gon still in the dark after heavy snow and then ice brought down tree branches this week- end and blocked storm drains in Washington state and Idaho, raising concerns about flood- ing. Portland General Electric’s map of power outages listed 288,922 customers without electricity, most in Clackamas County. At least 4,000 power lines were brought down by ice and tree limbs, and multi- ple transmission lines were se- verely damaged by the storm that swept through this week- end. Officials in Boise, Idaho, were concerned about thou- sands of storm drains that could be clogged by snow and ice, causing flooding. “I’m sure you’ve driven through an area with a huge puddle,” Nicole DuBois, chief communication officer for the Ada County Highway District told Boise TV sta- tion KTVB. “The reason that is happening is because the storm drain in the area is clogged with something and preventing that water from draining through.” February 16, 17, 18, 19 437 NE 3rd Street • Bend EconoLodge Room #112 • 541-977-8452 See Phil 9am-5pm. Appointment only after 5pm Ted S. Warren/AP The statue of former Washington NCAA college football coach Don James wears a coating of snow Saturday in Seattle. Flooding was also a con- cern in western Washington as milder Pacific air arrived early Monday, with snow melting, storm drains clogged and rain expected. “We suggest getting out shovels or finding a way to clear that out so that when it does rain and all the snow melts, the water will have a place to go,” said Courtney Carpenter, a senior meteorol- ogist with National Weather Service in Seattle. The winter weather wasn’t giving up its grip in the Cas- cade Range, where heavy snowfall was expected at times all week and into the weekend. Washington transportation officials closed the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 over Sno- qualmie Pass early Monday to do avalanche control work. Mountain passes could see 15 to 30 inches of new snow through Tuesday night. Meanwhile, snow-packed roads, downed trees and power lines made travel in the Port- land area treacherous. Officials canceled all service on the Portland Streetcar and only a few light rail routes were operating. 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The Tri-City Water Resource Recovery Facility — located north of Oregon City where the Clackamas River meets the Willamette — was on standby generator power, which meant the plant was treating 77% of the wastewater it typically pro- cesses, but the rest was being discharged with only partial treatment, Clackamas County spokesperson Kimberly Din- widdie said. The county said it was work- ing with Portland General Electric to restore power as soon as possible. County staff was also working with PGE to get more fuel for the standby generators at the water facility. The water being discharged is likely out of compliance with the Clean Water Act, the county said, and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has been notified. The county advised the pub- lic to avoid contact with the water in the Willamette River downstream of the Tri-City water facility for the next few days as a precautionary mea- sure. Car fell off interstate bridge into Columbia River PORTLAND — A car fell from the Glenn L. Jackson Me- morial Bridge and into the Co- lumbia River on Sunday night, prompting a search effort by the Multnomah County Sher- iff’s Office Marine Patrol Unit. The vehicle was discovered, but divers had not entered the Bracelets water to search as of 8:25 p.m., Portland Fire & Rescue spokes- person Tremaine Clayton said. The vehicle was reportedly traveling south on the span of Interstate 205 that connects Oregon and Washington, ac- cording to The Oregonian. Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Sgt. Bran- don Pedro said the marine unit was dispatched to the bridge’s midspan. The frigid weather and snowfall that blanketed the Portland area led Oregon De- partment of Transportation of- ficials to urge motorists to stay home Sunday. Agency officials advised motorists to monitor TripCheck before chancing icy roads. The National Weather Ser- vice forecasts freezing rain across the Portland area over- night. — Bulletin wire reports TODAY Today is Tuesday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2021. There are 318 days left in the year. On Feb. 16, 1959, Fidel Castro be- came premier of Cuba a month and a-half after the overthrow of Fulgen- cio Batista. In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ended as some 12,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered; Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s victory earned him the moni- ker “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” In 1868, the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks was organized in New York City. In 1945, American troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the Phil- ippines during World War II. In 1948, NBC TV began airing its first nightly newscast, “The Camel Newsreel Theatre,” which consisted of Fox Movietone newsreels. In 1960, the nuclear-powered radar picket submarine USS Triton depart- ed New London, Connecticut, on the first submerged circumnaviga- tion by a vessel. In 1961, the United States launched the Explorer 9 satellite. In 1968, the nation’s first 911 emer- gency telephone system was inau- gurated in Haleyville, Alabama, as the speaker of the Alabama House, Rankin Fite, placed a call from the mayor’s office in City Hall to a red telephone at the police station (also located in City Hall) that was an- swered by U.S. Rep. Tom Bevill. In 1996, eleven people were killed in a fiery collision between an Am- trak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, Maryland. In 1998, a China Airlines Airbus A300 trying to land in fog near Tai- pei, Taiwan, crashed, killing all 196 people on board, plus seven on the ground. In 2001, the United States and Brit- ain staged air strikes against radar stations and air defense command centers in Iraq. In 2006, Russia’s Evgeni Plushenko beat world champion Stephane Lambiel of Switzerland by 27.12 points to win the gold medal in men’s figure skating at the Winter Games in Turin, Italy. In 2019, the Vatican announced that former Cardinal Theodore McCar- rick, who served as archbishop of Washington, D.C., had been found guilty by the Vatican of sex abuse and had been defrocked; McCarrick was the highest-ranking churchman and the first cardinal to face that punishment as the church dealt with clerical sex abuse. Ten years ago: Bookstore chain Borders filed for Chapter 11 bank- ruptcy protection and said it would close nearly a third of its stores. Huge crowds called for a political overhaul in Bahrain, and leaders appeared to shift tactics after at- tempts to crush the uprising stoked protesters’ rage. Five years ago: Former U.N. Secre- tary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 93, died in Cairo. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s courtroom chair was draped in black to mark his death, a tradition dating to the 19th century. The Czech Museum of Music presented a cantata, “A Salute to the Recuperating Ophelia,” a rare piece of music written in three parts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, An- tonio Salieri and an unknown com- poser, Cornetti, that was considered lost for more than 200 years. One year ago: Hundreds of Ameri- cans from a quarantined cruise ship in Japan took charter flights home, as Japan announced that another 70 coronavirus infections had been confirmed on the ship. The Chinese province of Hubei, the epicenter of the virus, announced that vehicle traffic would be banned, with some exceptions. Anthony Davis made a game-ending free throw to give Team LeBron a 157-155 win over Team Giannis in the revamped NBA All-Star Game. Today’s Birthdays: Jazz/pop singer-actor Peggy King is 91. Actor William Katt is 70. Actor LeVar Burton is 64. Actor-rapper Ice-T is 63. 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