Chehalis Flood 2009 - I-5 exit 76

Here's some footage I took in Chehalis, Lewis County, WA today. The floodzone is about 6 blocks from the house. We are safe, we're just in Chehalis. . .

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• Chehalis
• Flood
• 2009
• I-5
• exit
• 76
• 13th
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• County

[sabian49015]

I'm looking at doing my physical therapist assitant clinical feild work for college in Longview, Centralia, or Olympia. I can't really narrow it down to a nice area due to me being in Michigan and never traveling to WA. Does it flood out like that annually in the Chehalis/Centralia area or is this rare?

[princeofaangst]

@sabian49015 for two years (2007 & 2008) it flooded because of the levies breaking or some such related thing. Since then, my mother in law has moved and we haven't been down there, but I haven't heard of any flooding. If I were you though, Olympia is a much bigger city with more going on, and Lonview is pretty close to Portland.

[xxxtheseeker]

i went thro there in my truck befor the closed haha that was fun!!

[logicgirl09]

That flood was scary!! I still remember the boat on the freeway.

[vidarjens]

why dont they build more buildings out there by walmart? that might help the flood problem

[randtkid]

Thanks for sharing this video..... I live in Chehalis, its been bad cuz we couldnt go anywere. I thought 2009 was suppose to be a good year.. it didnt start like it but i guess the worst is supose to come early in the year.