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On Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, the Umatilla River in Pendleton was trying to handle a record-breaking 28,900 cubic feet per second of water through our city. Compare this to the previous highest flow in Pendleton — 15,500 cfs in 1965. The result was heavy flooding on both the far eastern and western ends of town. Fortunately, in the main area of town, the levees held back the water with only a few exceptions. In the eastern Riverside neighborhood, flood waters raged through a residential area, across Highway 11, and into a commercial neighborhood. A major 12-inch sewer line was washed out, r...

Umatilla County has certainly had its share of floods over the years, but nothing quite like what we’ve experienced in recent years. We don’t know exactly what a 100-year flood genuinely looks like, but it would seem the centuries are flying by in an unprecedented fashion. Usually, when we would be invited to talk about the subject of flooding, the first question wouldn’t be, “Which flood?” And when we are talking about getting reparations from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other programs, we wouldn’t have to stop and define the same question —...