"The catastrophic flooding has forced thousands of people to evacuate, including Eddie Wicks and his wife, who live amid sunflowers and Christmas trees on a Washington state farm next to the Snoqualmie River. As they moved their two donkeys to higher ground and their eight goats to their outdoor kitchen, the water began to rise much quicker than anything they had experienced before."
"Shortly before noon Saturday, it was minus 12 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 24 degrees Celsius) in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where the wind chill value meant that it felt like minus 33 F (minus 36 C), the National Weather Service said. For big cities like Minneapolis and Chicago, the coldest temperatures were expected late Saturday night into Sunday morning. In the Minneapolis area, low temperatures were expected to drop to around minus 15 F (minus 26 C), by early Sunday morning."
A blast of arctic air is plunging south from Canada into parts of the northern United States while the Pacific Northwest faces catastrophic flooding with slow-receding waters raising mudslide and levee failure concerns. Thousands of people have evacuated. On a Washington farm near the Snoqualmie River, residents moved livestock to higher ground before rising water engulfed their home and King County marine rescue divers rescued them and their dog by boat across a field turned into a lake. Upper Midwest locations recorded dangerously low wind-chill values, with Grand Forks reporting minus 12 F and wind chills near minus 33 F. Temperatures in Minneapolis and Chicago were forecast to reach extremely low levels overnight as the Arctic air mass expanded south and east.
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