"Officials ordered immediate evacuations in three south Seattle suburbs Monday 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, meanwhile, issued a flash flood warning covering nearly 47,000 people. Conditions are dangerous and access routes may be lost at any time, the weather service said in a post on X."
"The National Weather Service, meanwhile, issued a flash flood warning covering nearly 47,000 people. Conditions are dangerous and access routes may be lost at any time, the weather service said in a post on X. 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."
Officials ordered immediate evacuations in three south Seattle suburbs after a levee failed following a week of heavy rains. The evacuation covered homes and businesses east of the Green River in parts of Kent, Auburn and Tukwila. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning affecting nearly 47,000 people. Conditions were described as dangerous and access routes could be lost at any time. The levee breach followed days of heavy rain and flooding that inundated communities, forced tens of thousands to evacuate and prompted numerous rescues across western Washington.
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