Glenoma News

December's heavy snowfall and January's flooding and mudslides left many scars that can still be seen two months later when passing through East Lewis County.

Posted Wed, Feb 25, 2009 - 10:45 am . E-mail this article to a friend. By Dan Schreiber dschreiber@chronline.com The Federal Emergency Management Agency will close its disaster recovery center in Morton on ...

The KBSG call letters are gone from the Seattle airwaves, the FM station's original oldies format even longer departed.

Posted Tue, Feb 3, 2009 - 10:38 am . E-mail this article to a friend. By Dan Schreiber dschreiber@chronline.com In response to flooding and mudslides earlier this month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

The mud is everywhere. It's under homes, smeared over yards, blocking driveways and caked on everyone's boots.

In a 6-mile stretch of hillsides north of Glenoma, state Department of Natural Resources aerial surveys tallied 116 slides.

January landslides in the upper Cowlitz Valley caused $4.5M in private-property damage.

Back in September, Mark Hornby left a construction management job in Utah to return to his family's farm in this Cascade mountain valley.

It has been a little more than two weeks since a hillside high above the Roadside Inn Tavern ended up inside of it -- up to the bar stools, actually -- and that's how long it took owner Linda Mitchell to get ...

Fire Chief Dan Powell was set up with dump trucks and prepared for a day of helping get snow off roofs around Morton, several of which had already collapsed from the weight of a rain soaking.

Public safety representatives Friday evening offered more than 100 Glenoma residents emergency information at a city meeting held at the old Glenoma School after flooding and landslides overwhelmed East Lewis ...

The Washington State Department of Transportation is still working on two main roadways after severe landslides crippled East Lewis County transportation Jan.

Posted Sat, Jan 17, 2009 - 5:49 am . E-mail this article to a friend. Standing in his backyard just off state Route 508 northwest of Morton, Joe Squibb is surrounded by a twisted mess of mud, logs, destroyed ...

A community meeting will be held Friday in Glenoma to discuss mudslides that came down last week below a tract of timberland that was clear-cut last summer above Wright Road.

Traffic on U.S. Highway 12 in East Lewis County was moving this morning, albeit slowly.

Posted Tue, Jan 13, 2009 - 11:44 am . E-mail this article to a friend. By Dan Schreiber dschreiber@chronline.com It sounded like a freight train when the hills came down in East Lewis County last week, ...

By Dan Schreiber dschreiber@chronline.com This week's tropical storm and quick warm up rained havoc on top of several feet of snow in the Cascades and its foothills, leaving what can only be described as a ...

Glenoma, Lewis County: Linda Mitchell, owner of the Roadside Inn Tavern in Glenoma, stands atop debris that reaches the height of the bartools.

Posted 09 Jan 2009. E-mail this article to a friend. By Dan Schreiber dschreiber@chronline.com Flooding in East Lewis County this week wasn't nearly as bad as expected, but the mudslides quickly made up for ...

Avalanches, mudslides and standing water have closed Snoqualmie and Stevens passes and other highways in Washington.