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Show IV COAST STORMS JliiONTM SEATTLE. Dec. 30 t Gale warnings flew along the Oregon and Washington coasta again today after our days of unremitting storms claimed six lives and caused unestimated property damage in the Pacific northwest. The half down deaths were attributed at-tributed directly to gales, heavy rains, snows and attendant floods and Tildes. '1 hey did not Include numerous traffic accidenta. While no official estimate waa :made of damage mw the entire Pacific northwest. British Columbia authorities estimated the storm would cost the province between $200,000 and $400,000. largely in wagea for road maintenance crews. Highway crewa throughout the province. Washington. Oregon and Idaho labored today to clear debria from main arteries in an effort to restore normal travel. The little town of Concrete In Skagit county of northwestern Washington waa virtually Isolated by a slide and washout. Continued rains closed more Oregon Ore-gon highway! yeaterday and delayed de-layed repairs to flooded, slide-blocked slide-blocked and washed out roads. Residents of the Nehalem valley, Oregon, fled to higher ground when the Nehalem river continued to rise and formed a lake in the valley. |