Flooding at and around Harvey Field [Credit: Meg Godlewski]
Key Takeaways:
Washington state experienced widespread flooding due to back-to-back atmospheric rivers, causing rivers to overflow, levees to breach, and communities and areas around local airports to be inundated.
Pilots at several affected airports, including Harvey Field, Auburn Municipal, and Renton Municipal, proactively moved aircraft to higher ground or other locations to protect them from rising floodwaters.
While some floodwaters have receded, the situation remains precarious with more rain in the forecast, persistent road closures hindering travel, and a new cold front bringing strong winds.
It has been a tense week for people living in Washington state, where back-to-back atmospheric rivers have drenched the region, overloading rivers, breaching levees, and triggering massive flooding in communities and around local airports.
The water has begun to recede in some areas, but not so much in others. And there is more rain in the forecast.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
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