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The Chinook tribe, which is not federally recognized, who live near the lower Columbia River, call it Wimahl or Wimal in the Upper Chinook (Kiksht) language, and it is Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana to the Sahaptin (Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit)-speaking peoples of its middle course in present-day Washington. The river is known as swah'netk'qhu by the ...
Date. May–June 1948. Location. Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana in the United States and British Columbia, Canada [1] Deaths. 16–102 [2] Property damage. $102.7 million ($1.2 billion in 2021) [1] [3] The 1948 Columbia River flood (or Vanport Flood) was a regional flood that occurred in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and ...
Property damage. $2.5-7.5 billion [2] [3] [4] The 2021 Pacific Northwest floods were a series of floods that affected British Columbia, Canada, and parts of neighboring Washington state in the United States. The flooding and numerous mass wasting events were caused by a Pineapple Express, a type of atmospheric river, which brought heavy rain to ...
Will Wixey. May 10, 2024 at 9:59 AM. VASHON ISLAND, Wash. - An unusually low tide in western Washington is affecting some local ferry routes, specifically those around Vashon Island. A low tide ...
The Nooksack empties into Bellingham Bay, the Dungeness and Elwha into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The Chilliwack River flows north to the Fraser River in Canada. Tides in Puget Sound are of the mixed type with two high and two low tides each tidal day. These are called Higher High Water (HHW), Lower Low Water (LLW), Lower High Water (LHW), and ...
Columbia Bar. Coordinates: 124°02′W. Bathymetric. The Columbia Bar is a system of bars and shoals at the mouth of the Columbia River spanning the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. It is one of the most dangerous bar crossings in the world, earning the nickname Graveyard of the Pacific. The bar is about 3 miles (5 km) wide and 6 miles (10 ...
The river below Willamette Falls, 26.5 miles (42.6 km) from the mouth, is affected by semidiurnal tides, and gauges have detected reverse flows (backwards river flows) below Ross Island at RM 15 (RK 24). The National Weather Service issues tide forecasts for the river at the Morrison Bridge. Geology
Braiden Ward goes deep twice, but Spokane Indians lose to Vancouver 7-3. May 17—Sean Sullivan, the Colorado Rockies' second-round pick in last year's MLB draft, entered play on Friday having ...