Residents near a breached levee in Washington state were told to evacuate, just hours after an evacuation alert was lifted for residents near another broken levee in the same county. Police in the city of Pacific urged people in the evacuation area near the White River to “Go Now!” early Tuesday. The National Weather Service office in Seattle issued a flash flood warning for the levee breach on the river in King County. On Monday, crews used sandbags to shore up an earthen levee south of Seattle after a small section failed after a week of heavy rains. That breach prompted an evacuation order that was later lifted.
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Officials have ordered immediate evacuations in three south Seattle suburbs after a levee failed following a week of heavy rains. The evacuation order from King County in Washington state covered homes and businesses east of the Green River in parts of Kent, Auburn and Tukwila. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning covering nearly 47,000 people. It posted on the social media platform X that conditions were dangerous and that routes out could be lost at any time. The levee breach followed days of heavy rain and flooding that inundated communities, forced the evacuations of tens of thousands of people, and prompted scores of rescues throughout western Washington state.