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PENDLETON â Back-to-back-to-back storms blanketed the region in more than a foot of snow, but local meteorologists donât expect the aftermath to create the kind of conditions that led to the Umatilla County floods last February.
Rob Brooks, a meteorologist with the National Weather Serviceâs Pendleton office, said three successive systems, starting on Thursday, Feb. 11, and running through the morning of Feb. 15, combined to pelt the region with massive snowfall amounts.
According to the weather service, the Pendleton area saw 16.4 inches of snowfall over the four-day period, good for the fourth highest total over four days in recorded history. The Pendleton area did set a record with three consecutive days of four inches of snow or more.
LA GRANDE — The Oregon Department of Transportation has warned drivers to exercise extreme caution or stay at home due to the storm hitting Northeast Oregon this weekend.
ECHO â The flood of February 2020 changed the course of the Umatilla River around Echo, but the river is not done moving.
The shifting landscape becomes obvious when looking out over fields owned by Bink Ramos, on the south side of the bridge where Main Street becomes Oregon Trail Road. There, freshly sheared-off banks in a large U-shape mark where chunks of what used to be an agricultural field have collapsed into the river and washed away.
Ramos estimates he has lost about 5 acres of property along the river in total, which he said would have been valued at between $6,000 and $8,000 per acre.