PENDLETON â Back-to-back-to-back storms blanketed the region in more than a foot of snow, but local meteorologists donât expect the aftermath to create the kind of conditions that led to the Umatilla County floods last February. Rob Brooks, a meteorologist with the National Weather Serviceâs Pendleton office, said three successive systems, starting on Thursday, Feb. 11, and running through the morning of Feb. 15, combined to pelt the region with massive snowfall amounts. According to the weather service, the Pendleton area saw 16.4 inches of snowfall over the four-day period, good for the fourth highest total over four days in recorded history. The Pendleton area did set a record with three consecutive days of four inches of snow or more.