Washington state orders immediate evacuation in three Seattle suburbs | Washington state
Officials in Washington state ordered immediate evacuations in three south Seattle suburbs on Monday after a levee failed following a week of heavy rains.
The evacuation order from King county covered homes and businesses east of the Green River in parts of Kent, Auburn and Tukwila.
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flash flood warning covering nearly 47,000 people.
The levee breach followed a week of record-level flood waters that triggered widespread evacuations.
An extraordinarily strong system known as an atmospheric river dropped more than a foot of rain, flooding rivers that stretch across the state toward Canada to dangerous levels. Mudslides tore through communities, washing away homes and stranding families on rooftops as they waited for rescue.
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