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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.”
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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. Bus routes through-
out the city were delayed, de-
toured or canceled.
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PORTLAND AREA
Sewage plant discharges
partially treated water
Partially treated wastewater
was discharged into the Willa-
mette River due to a prolonged
power outage caused by the
storm.
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. Actor
Lisa Loring is 63. International Tennis
Hall of Famer John McEnroe is 62.
Rock musician Andy Taylor is 60. Rock
musician Dave Lombardo (Slayer) is
56. Actor Sarah Clarke is 50. Olympic
gold medal runner Cathy Freeman
is 48. Actor Mahershala Ali is 47.
Singer Sam Salter is 46. Electronic
dance music artist Bassnectar is 43.
Rapper Lupe Fiasco is 39. Actor Chloe
Wepper is 35. Pop-rock singer Ryan
Follese is 34. Rock musician Danielle
Haim is 32. Actor Elizabeth Olsen is
32. Actor Mike Weinberg is 28.
— Associated Press
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