7 rescued from floodwaters
A woman and two young children were rescued from the top of their SUV as floodwaters swept over the vehicle’s roof on a coastal Oregon road.
Seven people were rescued from their vehicles south of Tillamook on Wednesday night, after a two-day storm washed out a culvert and a stretch of county road above it. No one was seriously hurt.
Fire Capt. Charles Spittles in Tillamook County said Stephanie McRae and her three children were in a Ford Expedition that was swept a quarter-mile downstream and lodged against a tree. Her 11-year-old daughter managed to crawl through the broken front window and shimmy across a branch of the tree to get to safety and seek help, he said.
