Torrential rains pummeled parts of the Pacific Northwest
early Wednesday causing mudslides and flooding roads, leaving two women dead in
Oregon and sweeping seven people into a Washington river, where they were rescued.
A large Douglas fir tree crashed into a Portland home
early Wednesday, killing a 60-year-old woman who was in bed.
The tree, roughly 30 inches in diameter, was uprooted and
sliced through the house, pinning the woman underneath.
Next door neighbor Sam Choumxay said he watched in horror
as the tree fell onto his neighbor's house with a thud. The tree top slammed
into two cars in Choumxay's driveway.
Choumxay said he ran outside, made it around the tree,
and raced to his neighbors' front door.
"Is anybody hurt? Is anybody hurt? I just kept
calling to them," he said.
On Wednesday afternoon, a woman drowned after her car
became submerged on a flooded road about 60 miles northwest of Portland in
Clatskanie, Oregon, The Oregonian reported.
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