Pacific and Lewis County Hurricane
a.k.a. The Hundred Year Storm
Pacific County Historical Society and Museum
Last modified on January 12th, 2008 / Contact the Museum / Web editing done by Brian Davis at bridavis@gte.net.
Winds reached 150 MPH during the 30 hour Hurricane, and rainfall was between 5 to 20 inches.
December 2nd & 3rd, 2007
(photos organized from west to east)
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Observations about the Storm from a South Bend perspective, by Jean Shaudys:
     On Saturday it snowed, followed by rains and increasing high winds.  Sunday evening the rain and the whole works blew in on us.  The whole county as well as four other coastal counties lost power as the three different Bonneville power lines which supply us were destroyed.  All three access highways to us were blocked by fallen trees - not that we really wanted to go anywhere, anyway!  Our area had some flooding but it was worse to the east of us.  Our highway to Chehalis and to the north-south freeway I-5 is closed indefinitely until several bridges can be rebuilt or repaired.  Highway 101 between us and Aberdeen to the north, was initially cleared by a few loggers who were stranded half way home to our area, and so went out and cut a way through 20 some miles blocked by fallen trees.
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8 Pacific County Photos sent by Suzy Whittey:  Here are some photographs that were taken on the road I live on in Long Beach, WA on December 2, 3, & 4, 2007.  We called it the "Tropical Wallop" before it was given the name the Advent Storm.  The motor home that had the 6 story cedar tree fall on it, was across the street from us.  It fell early in the storm.  As the steady 60-80 mph winds with gust to 100 + winds slammed us, the tree would rock the motor home so much that the rear axel and tires would lift off the ground about 6" to 10".  The photograph of the travel trailer that shows the wood cut up was taken on Dec. 11, 2007.  The photographs on your web site are amazing!  Thanks for taking the time to share with all of us.  It is healing to know we were not alone.

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1 Pacific County Photo sent by Robert Waltemate.  This is looking west from the Cranberry Road & Sandridge Road intersection on the Long Beach Peninsula. Robert took the picture that Monday Morning (12-3-2007).

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12 Pacific County Photos sent by Shelly Pollock.  These photos are all from Ocean Park.
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9 Pacific County Photos sent by Dean and Cristina Meek.  The boat house was fine, but others weren't.  Ron and Dad went to North River the first day after the storm was over.  They had to cut their way there.  Several boats had sunk and they saved a float house that was ready to float out to sea.  The float house that is in the one picture was saved.  The picture of the "Raymond 1 mile" I copied from The News Tribune.  The others were take by Ron and Dad.

(by Bruce Ely of the Associated Press, as found in The Chronicle, see Photo #40)
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1 Pacific County Photo from Greg and Sue Pattillo

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4 Pacific County Photos from Kathy Balcom

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3 more Pacific County Photos from Kathy Balcom.  The first shows how Breen Creek washed out a bridge to 108 Breen Creek Road.  The second is Rock Creek.  The third was taken in Raymond and shows how far Ugly Ed's roof went flying.

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7 Pacific County Photos from Steve Rogers

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7 Pacific County Photos from Kevin Miller Photography

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8 more Pacific County Photos from Phil Davis

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7 Menlo Photos from Ann Rockett, showing the Niemcziek's barn, Langers barn and yard, and a house by the Willapa River.

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8 more Menlo photos from Ann Rockett taken along "Viking Way".  Yellow home (1 downed tree to the left, and 2 to the right).  3 of Willapa Valley Junior High.  The last 4 of the Fair Grounds.

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5 Lebam Photos from Ann Rockett, looking out from Skees Road (Lebam).  Those are two of our sons using hip boots to wade out to see how deep the water was over the road.  Skees Road intersects with Highway 6.  That is Highway 6 (under water) in front of the Ash barn which received about 3' of water.

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15 Adna Photos from Tony Christen

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15 Chehalis Area Photos from Tim Taylor
The first photo below is from an unknown source; perhaps the Weyco helicopter or from a Newspaper?
(see Chehalis PowerPoint Show (with at least one photo at the end of the show by Mike Salsbury of The Chronicle (Photo #18)) and Centralia Movie too)

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 10 Pe Ell and Adna Area Photos from Tim Taylor
     These photos were taken from Weyco helicopter in Lewis and Pacific counties after the storm.  First two are of the mudslide just west of Pe Ell.  News media covered Chehalis and Centralia area, but the worst damage was from Pe Ell to Adna area.  Water backed up behind two log jams upstream from Weyco's truck shop in Pe Ell, log jam's broke loose sending a wall of water and debris downstream, taking out several bridges and dozens of houses.  US Coast Guard helicopters rescued more than 200 people, many from rooftops.  They were able to fly in that area as they didn't have the high winds like we had near the coast.

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17 Chehalis and Adna area photos forwarded from Jim Curtis.
Gary Dorning of Adna, Wash. carries a young girl through flood waters as the Chehalis River rises over state Route 6 west of Adna Monday, Dec. 3, 2007. The girl was one of nine in a family trapped at their home by flooding conditions west of Adna. She and her brother were rescued by jet ski as the rest of the family remained on the rooftop of their rural Lewis County home.
(by Mike Salsbury of The Chronicle, see Photo #18)
Walmart in Chehalis.
(Photo forwarded from Jim Curtis.  If from a newspaper, the source is unknown at this time.)
Plaza Jalisco in Chehalis.
(Photo forwarded from Jim Curtis.  If from a newspaper, the source is unknown at this time.)
Downtown Adna – during helicopter rescue.
(Photo forwarded from Jim Curtis.  If from a newspaper, the source is unknown at this time.)
Another view of downtown Adna – looking at the fire station.
(Photo forwarded from Jim Curtis.  If from a newspaper, the source is unknown at this time.)
Helicopter rescue in Adna – see the Grange on the right.
(Photo forwarded from Jim Curtis.  If from a newspaper, the source is unknown at this time.)
Flood waters from the Chehalis River inundate a neighborhood in Centralia.  I-5 is in the background, the Holiday Inn Express is on the left hand side, and King Solomon's is toward the center of the picture below the freeway.
(Photo by Steve Ringman of The Seattle Times)
Exit 77, looking north.  Highway 6 heads out to the right.
(Photo by Steve Ringman of The Seattle Times)
Exit 77, looking south. Notice the English Restaurant and the Veteran's Museum on the right side of the freeway.
(Photo by Steve Ringman of The Seattle Times)
Flooding at the Chehalis Airport.
(Photos by Steve Ringman of The Seattle Times (left/right))
The water moved the medians around on I-5.
(Photos by Steve Ringman of The Seattle Times (left/right))
The Chamber Way exit from the freeway, looking at the Walmart and new strip malls (strip malls to the left, Applebees in front of Walmart).  Uhlmans is likely underwater below this picture.
(Photo by Steve Ringman of The Seattle Times)
Another picture of Centralia – the Peppermill is the large building in the lower left, and the RV park on the right (King Solomon's is off the picture to the left).
(Photo by Steve Ringman of The Seattle Times)
Centralia again – the sewage treatment plant is on the right hand side, and King Solomon's is on the left.  You can also see the Holiday Inn Express near the center of the picture (large white building).
(Photo by Steve Ringman of The Seattle Times)
A stranded motorist sits on his car on the corner of Black Lake Blvd. and Cooper Point Road in Olympia as flooding waters filled the streets during the morning commute Monday.
(Photo by Steven M. Herppich of the Associated Press)
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