Mandatory evacuations ordered in Bothell

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Mandatory evacuations ordered in Bothell

About 50 children from Bright Horizons daycare at North Creek in Bothell were being relocated because flooding cut off access to their building.

At about 1 p.m., teachers were marching the children, ages 2 months to 6 years old, across Northeast 195th Street under cover of umbrellas. The children who were not picked up by their parents were taken to Woodinville Montessori at 19102 North Creek Pkwy.

"They're expecting the electricity to go out. They think that would be pretty exciting," said teacher Sarah Albertson, of her students.

Meanwhile, Bothell Mayor Mark Lamb proclaimed a local emergency within his city's limits.

"The City of Bothell is taking all necessary measures to ensure life safety for our citizens," Lamb said. "The City is in full response to this emergency and is continuing to monitor the conditions as they are changing rapidly. Please secure yourself and your family, and ensure your emergency response plan is in place."

Mandatory evacuations were in effect for the North Creek Business Park, Quinton Industries and the Northshore School District admininstration building.

-- Reporter Scott Gutierrez

Posted by at December 3, 2007 1:32 p.m.
Category: Rain storm, Dec. 3, 2007

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#72104

Posted by unregistered user at 12/3/07 3:13 p.m.

Nice stretch... day care decides to relocate 50 children = "Mandatory evacations ordered in Bothell"

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#72142

Posted by unregistered user at 12/3/07 4:19 p.m.

The heading scared me!!!

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#72145

Posted by unregistered user at 12/3/07 4:26 p.m.

Read the whole story bozo - the whole office complex was evacuated. Thousands of workers all jammed the only way out. It took over an hour to get out of the office complex.

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#72146

Posted by unregistered user at 12/3/07 4:28 p.m.

The City of Bothell website calls the evacuations of the business areas mandatory, so no stretch of the imagination is required. I don't know if they were going building by building and forcing everyone to leave, though.

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#72148

Posted by unregistered user at 12/3/07 4:29 p.m.

That's what happens when you develop in a wetland area (North Creek Office Complex). That whole area always floods. It was a great bird flyway at one time. Now it's all ugly roads and buildings.

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#72155

Posted by unregistered user at 12/3/07 4:38 p.m.

No, they were calling building to building. Also, it didn't take long to realize that the one remaining road in/out would soon be under water. Just before Noon, water from North Creek at the Northcreek parkway bridge was shooting through the bridge abuttment. The water level of the creek was well above the elevated roadway of the bridge. The only things holding back the water were the concrete abuttment and the walking path berm.

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#72183

Posted by unregistered user at 12/3/07 5:04 p.m.

It was somewhat upleasent, yet fascinating. Not what I would expct from a couple inches of rain.

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#72185

Posted by unregistered user at 12/3/07 5:05 p.m.

I am telling you it is because of the Iranian terrorist threat. Floods dont just happen on their own. This is driven by the Iranian need for Nuclear power and world domination. Dont you see?

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#72187

Posted by unregistered user at 12/3/07 5:10 p.m.

So did it overflow? Are our offices underwater? (What a shame that would be)

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#72213

Posted by unregistered user at 12/3/07 6:04 p.m.

I used to work at that daycare center and marching all of those children is no easy task. I think that the center did an amazing job with the situation. Sarah is fabulous!

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#72236

Posted by unregistered user at 12/3/07 7:14 p.m.

The pictures on the news showing the creek and flooding were amazing. That whole area is closed down tonight and many of the roads here in Bothell are closed as well. Sarah did do a GREAT job today!! They called earlier for people to volunteer to help sandbag in that complex but folks couldn't make their way down there easily.

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#72363

Posted by unregistered user at 12/4/07 6:52 a.m.

Global warming. Melting the polar ice caps. Rain for 40 days and 40 nights. Anyone have an ARK for sale?

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