Morning fog in the South Sound will lift by noon but clouds will hang around ahead of our next rainmaker sitting offshore. This will be a weak system and will bring a shot of light rain tonight through Sunday morning.
All Over The Map: The surprising number of Washington towns inspired by first names January 15, 2021 at 9:36 am
George, Washington is along I-90 in Grant County and is named in honor of the first name of the state s namesake; nearby is George Lake and Martha Lake. (USGS Archives)
Names for communities in Washington are inspired by many things – nods to obvious nearby geographic features, nostalgia for faraway hometowns of settlers, memorials to Indigenous leaders, remembrances for slain presidents, tributes to military figures and sometimes, of course, just the glory of the community’s settlers themselves.
The town of Marcus in Stevens County falls into this last category. Marcus was founded in the 1860s by W.V. Brown and Marcus Oppenheimer. The two men, and perhaps one of Oppenheimer’s brothers, took over barracks that had been abandoned by the British Boundary Commission, the military surveyors who spent about four years physically marking the 49th par
Flooding, landslides impact Washington coastal communities
Q13 s Steve Kiggins reports.
PACIFIC BEACH, Wash. - Steady rain fell along Washington state’s beaches Tuesday. The winter weather pushed rivers to run high, flooding roadways and causing landslide to impact travel and large waves are blamed for killing one person in Pacific Beach earlier this week.
Flooding near Ocean City covered a portion of SR 109 leaving the highway inundated with water. State Troopers said the water was deep enough to close the road.
South of Cosmopolis along U.S. Highway 101 a landslide closed the northbound lanes for most of the day before crews could clear the debris.
Jan. 9 Thurston County reported a record 133 COVID-19 cases Friday as state COVID data keeps the region and the entire state in its new Phase 1.. The previous daily record for COVID cases was 104 cases on Dec. 7. The added cases today bring the county's totals to 5,268 confirmed cases and 58 deaths since March 2020. The county also reported Friday that 314 people have been hospitalized at .