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UMATILLA COUNTY — As longtime Umatilla County residents surveyed the rushing waters of the county’s flood of 2020, it brought to mind another scene, from 1996. The county marked the 25th anniversary of the flood of 1996 — generally considered the last “big one” before 2020 — on Feb. 9. When an East Oregonian reporter found Hermiston Irrigation District Manager Annette Kirkpatrick surveying where flood waters had overtopped the district’s gates along the Umatilla River during the 2020 flood, she immediately made the comparison. “Even ‘96 wasn’t as bad as this,” she said at the time, echoing the thoughts of others interviewed that day. The numbers bear out that, at least in terms of water height, the 2020 flood was worse. In 1996, the

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