NORTHWEST PREPARES FOR NEW DELUGE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Already battered bat·ter 1 v. bat·tered, bat·ter·ing, bat·ters v.tr. 1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows. 2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse. 3. by two winter storms, then deluged by rain and melting snow, a soggy Northwest braced brace n. 1. A device that holds or fastens two or more parts together or in place; a clamp. 2. A device, such as a supporting beam in a building or a connecting wire or rope, that steadies or holds something else erect. Tuesday for another storm system that threatened wind gusts to 80 mph and more flooding. Steady rain led to numerous mudslides that threatened homes and prompted evacuations in the Puget Sound Puget Sound (py  `jĕt), arm of the Pacific Ocean, NW Wash., connected with the Pacific by Juan de Fuca Strait, entered through the Admiralty Inlet and extending in two arms c. region. The Washington death toll from weather-related accidents since last week climbed to at least eight Tuesday when a tree fell onto a car in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, killing a man inside. Three people have died in Oregon. A new Pacific storm system was expected to bring winds of 40 to 50 mph, with gusts to 70 or 80 mph, to the Washington coast and the northwestern corner of Washington state through today, the National Weather Service said. The Puget Sound region and southwest Washington were expected to see winds of 30 to 40 mph with gusts to 60 mph by early today. |
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