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Oregonians flee from floods
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — A mountain-side gave way in a rush of mud. Highways vanished beneath caramel-colored floodwaters swirling with uuprated trees and raw sewage. One girl was killed, one woman was reported missing, and thousands of Oregonians were driven from their homes.
And the rain kept falling. As the state's worst flooding in more than three decades threatened to swamp downtown Portland, sandbags and concrete highway dividers formed a thin defense yesterday against the wide Willamette River.
"Water's going everywhere," said Trase Myers, as he and others hurried to stack 40-pound sandbags against a downtown building. "I can't believe the destruction the water has caused."
In the nation's latest extreme weather in a winter of extremes, hundreds of roads — including both of Oregon's cross-state freeways, Interstates 5 and 84 — were closed by high water or mudslides. Amtrak trains were halted. Gov. John Kitzhaber declared 14 counties disas-
terareas.
Amid the deluge, there were water shortages. Muddy floodwaters contaminated drinking-water supplies throughout the valley. Small towns shut down their water plants completely and told residents to buy bottled water.
The flooding is the result of a series of storms that marched in from the Pacific beginning two weeks ago. The first were cold, piling up snow in the mountains that form a scenic backdrop to Portland — the Cascades to the east, the rolling Coast Range to the west.
On Monday, a warmer storm stalled over the state, and the snow started melting, adding to the record levels of rain — more than five inches a day in some areas.
Sparkling mountain streams, narrow enough to jump across two weeks ago, turned monstrous, tearing through the forest, ripping small bridges apart.
As the swollen streams converged in the Willamette River Valley, evergreen trees were ripped out by their roots, bobbing and lunging downstream.
An estimated 1,500 people were
forced from their homes in Eugene, and 12,000 in the Salem area, where a parade of U-Hauls, horse trailers and pickup trucks streamed through the rain.
A 9-year-old girl drowned in a culvert Wednesday when she went out to get the mail near the small Willamette Valley town of Scio.
On the Columbia River east of Portland, a tugboat rescued Harold Jank, 70, from a house that was breaking apart late Wednesday as it raced down the waterway. The tugboat couldn't rescue Jank's wife, Jacqueline, 62; she was reported missing.
In Portland, the Willamette River was expected to breach the city's seawall overnight and crest this morning at 30 feet, 1.2 feet above the seawall's lowest point.
That would equal the level of Portland's last big flood, during the Christmas of 1964, which killed 47 people and left 17,000 people homeless throughout the Northwest.
City workers and volunteers banged nails and lifted plywood sheets into place to erect a barrier extending 2.5 feet over the seawall, but officials expected it would only slow the water down.
Girl receives liver transplant after eating lethal mushrooms
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A 13-year-old girl who fell ill along with her family after eating lethal "death cap" mushrooms in spaghetti sauce received a liver transplant yc. yesterday.
The family, whose identity was not released, had picked the wild mushrooms Saturday near a reservoir. They sliced up the fungi, which have a strong odor akin to smelly sneakers, combined them with less toxic mushrooms they also had picked, and put them in spaghetti sauce.
Doctors said it was too soon to tell whether the girl's mother and her brothers, ages 11 and 14, also would need new livers. They were in serious condition, and doctors watched for signs of liver breakdown.
By the next morning, four of them
had stomach pains and went to the hospital.
The girl became sickest because her portion contained more of the deadly mushrooms, said William Freedman, an expert with the San Francisco Mycological Society who consulted with the family's doctors.
After an eight-hour operation, the girl was in critical but stable condition, which is normal after a major transplant, said Bill Gordon, a representative at the University of California Medical Center.
"Generally, these are very successful," he said. "They'll watch her over the next couple of hours to see how she does."
Freedman said there was little chance the poison would cause additional harm, because her old liver absorbed most of the toxins.
Rose Ann Soloway of the American Association of Poison Control Centers in Washington said the group received 40 to 50 reports a year of mushroom poisonings, including two deaths since 1993.
Asians are disproportionately victims, especially in California, Freedman said. Several years ago, 12 Laotians were poisoned.
"They must eat a similar mushroom in their country, but we don't know what it is that they think they are eating," Freedman said.
It is often characterized by a metallic green, shiny top, with white or pale gills underneath.
Recent rains in Northern California have provided an ideal, moist environment for the mushroom, the most dangerous in the world, Freedman said.
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