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December 12, 2025

State under emergency due to historic floods

  • Skagit County closed non-essential government services on Thursday and ordered everyone within the Skagit River’s 100-year floodplain to evacuate.
    • By CEDAR ATTANASIO and CLAIRE RUSH
    Associated Press

    Photo from the city of Mount Vernon [enlarge]
    The city of Mount Vernon completed a floodwall in 2018 that helps protect the downtown, but worries now that historic river levels could top it.

    MOUNT VERNON, Skagit County — Washington was under a state of emergency Thursday from a barrage of torrential rain that has sent rivers flowing over their banks, caused mudslides to crash down on highways and trapped people in floodwaters. Tens of thousands of residents were under evacuation orders.


     
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