When the River Kept Rising

"When the River Kept Rising: Flooding on the Skagit," Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, The Dirt, February 10, 2026.

When the River Kept Rising: Flooding on the Skagit — Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland
The rain kept falling, the Skagit River kept rising, and the weather forecast kept changing—with the expected scale of the flood growing bigger and bigger. By Wednesday, December 10, 2025, the prediction called not just for a flood, but a catastrophic one measuring 42 feet on the river in Mount Vern