MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: December 23, 2020
Flooding on Dayton Street Monday. (Photos by Julia Wiese)
The pounding rain that flooded the Puget Sound region Monday came during a perfect storm of factors that overwhelmed the capacity of the City of Edmonds’ stormwater system, Public Works and Utilities Director Phil Williams said Wednesday.
“This was the most serious and widespread urban flooding we have experienced for many years,” Williams said. “Some of our senior stormwater personnel say it was more intense than they can recall in the last 20+ years. We are still looking at the data to see if we can confirm that statistically.”
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Shellabarger house in 1921 from the Edmonds Tribune-Review, Nov. 25, 1921. (Source: the newspaper collection at Sno-Isle Genealocal Society, Heritage Park, Lynnwood)
Recently, a reader commenting on my April 9, 2019 article, “Looking Back: South Snohomish County place names from the past,” asked how Shell Creek got its name?
In my reply to the reader’s question, I reached back to some of my own memories from well over 80 years ago, when I was a child of Edmonds before development of the land covered over portions of the creeks by piping their flow of water underground.
Of course, since Edmonds is a waterfront town with its creeks flowing into Puget Sound, it does seem logical to assume that the naming of Shell Creek is related to sea shells. However, I don’t recall the waterfront beach or the creeks of Edmonds having any noticeable or unusual shells, and question that the Shell Creek name came from that source.