King tides, rain and swollen rivers from recent snowmelt created a dangerous situation in low-lying areas near the Snohomish River and by the shore. FOX13
"We didn’t think it was that bad," said Bob Savoy, a mechanic at the company. "When we came into work we waded through it, but it just kept coming – all of our equipment started to float."
"Couple of other guys aren’t as fortunate," he said, describing how water topped a dike underneath the railroad tracks. "It usually floods a little, but I’ve never seen it this bad before," said one woman who talked with FOX 13 via a cell phone, after a river spontaneously formed and separated her from us. "We’ve never been trapped here. It was flowing like a river earlier."
Guillaume Mauger, a research scientist with UW Climate Impacts Group, said these specific king tides were roughly 1.5 feet higher than what we typically see during a high tide event.
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