Emergency officials have had to shut down several roads Thursday in Snoqualmie Valley due to flooding along the Snoqualmie River. Two roads in the city of Snoqualmie and several roads in unincorporated King County have been topped by floodwater. No injuries related to the flooding have been reported. The localized flooding is the result of heavy rains in…
Month: March 2011
State uses heavy artillery to keep Snoqualmie Pass safe for motorists
Keeping Snoqualmie Pass open in winter is serious work involving big explosions and a surplus U.S. Army tank. Without avalanche control, snow slides can bury vehicles or close Interstate 90, which crosses the Cascade Mountains through the pass, for hours, said John Stimberis, the Snoqualmie Pass avalanche forecaster for the Washington State Department of Transportation….
Professor calls on teachers to engage students
Daniel W. Rasmus, a former Microsoft executive and now a consultant and visiting liberal arts fellow at Bellevue College, told Valley educators to lose their fear of saying “I don’t know.” “Let’s just say we don’t know something and co-learn with students,” he said during the annual Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation fundraiser. The event raised…
Snoqualmie Valley to host extreme car race
Snoqualmie could host one of three events in the Global RallyCross Championship at the former Weyerhaeuser mill site. DirtFish Rally School is in talks with the championship’s organizer, Rally Cross Management, to finalize the deal. The school is also waiting to hear back from King County for approval to hold the event. The mill is…
King County Elections finishes bulk of hand recount of Snoqualmie Valley school bond
It took less than two hours for eight 2-person teams of King County Elections employees to finish a hand recount of more than 9,200 ballots cast in the Feb. 8 election by Snoqualmie Valley School District voters. At issue is the district’s $56 million bond to build a new middle school. The department’s Canvassing Board…