Water flooded several streets in downtown Centralia, along the Interstate 5 corridor. In the town of Snoqualmie, about 25 miles east of Seattle, city officials urged a precautionary evacuation of one neighborhood near the Snoqualmie River before the waters began to recede. Even more rain fell in the Olympic Mountains and on the west side of the Cascade Mountains. Nearly 5 inches fell in an area near Issaquah, about 15 miles east of Seattle. In Monroe, at the north end of the Snoqualmie Valley east of Seattle, the total was 6.9 inches. In Hoquiam, nearly 5.4 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, the weather service said. I think that was the grace of God letting us know something was going on.' 'But we got out alive, so that's what matters. It sounded like trees and dirt coming down the hill,' Cynthia Schmid told KOMO-TV. 'It sounded like thunder, but you could hear trees. Police urged residents to leave their homes along a stretch of Queets Avenue at the base of Beacon Hill because of the danger that the whole bluff could give way, Police Chief Jeff Myers said. Rosoff reports that firefighters had to rescue a woman in her 80s and her dog - trapped after their home slid down a hill.
