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SEATTLE - Stormy weather blasted parts of Western Washington with torrential rain, causing landslides and flooding in the lowlands and heavy snow in the mountains Monday before turning to rain there as well.



The weather mayhem closed schools and highways and knocked out power in parts of Western Washington. A neighborhood was evacuated in Hoquiam due to the danger of a landslide.



The National Weather Service says 4 to 9 inches of rain fell on the southwest slopes of the Olympics and 2 to 5 inches on the west slopes of the Cascades with another inch or 2 expected Monday.



The Aberdeen-Hoquiam area was hit especially hard. Hoquiam reported 7.12 inches of rain in a 36-hour period, with 4.58 inches of that falling before midnight, making Sunday the third-wettest day in the city's history.



The Transportation Department reported four landslides in the Aberdeen-Hoquiam area closing highways, with more landslides possible in the coming hours. Crews are now clearing landslides in two places on Highway 101, and on Highway 12 and Highway 107. Closures also were reported on Highway 109, Highway 105 and State Route 4, where floodwaters wiped out a bridge.



In Hoquiam, police urged the residents of one neighborhood to evacuate because of the landslide danger. Police Chief Jeff Meyers says an eight-block section of Queets Avenue at the base of the Beacon Hill bluff is threatened. Cascading water has already washed out foundations of three homes.



"It sounded like thunder, but you could hear trees, it sounded like trees and dirt coming down the hill," said slide victim Cythia Schmid. "I said 'it's coming our way. We've got to get out of here now.' "



Then their car got stuck in water as they evacuated.



"But we got out alive so that's what matters," she said. "We had trouble sleeping. I think that was the grace of God letting us know something was going on."



Schmid said her time living in that neighborhood is now over.



"I'm not going to rebuild on here. No way," she said. "Don't want to live by this hill anymore."



Tiffany Binkley was in shock upon first seeing her home, also damaged by the slide. Her mother and aunt were inside their home when it was hit with a wall of mud.



"She was in her bedroom when it hit and my mom came flying down the stairs and couldn't open the door. It was jammed. There was no way she could get out," Binkley said. "So my mom had to like bust it open."



Everyone got out safely with just a few scrapes.



"They made it out alive so that's a miracle right there," Binkley said.



And now there's added concern for the 200-300 people who live up above on Beacon Hill as their only way in and out has been washed away, leaving them stranded.



Meyers says firefighters also are evacuating about 60 residents of a nursing home in the neighborhood as a precaution.



There was no exact number of evacuations, and no injuries have been reported. The nursing home was evacuated as a precaution, he said.



Streets are flooded throughout the Aberdeen-Hoquiam area near the Washington coast, which took the brunt of the storm.



Office building owner Gordon West arrived too late with a truck loaded with sandbags at his building on South I Street in Aberdeen. Water was already a foot deep in and around the building.



"If I ran the pump now I would just be pumping water in a circle," he said Monday.



Many Aberdeen streets were closed by standing water.



Landslides have closed Highway 101 in two places and also block Highway 12 and Highway 107 in the area, the Transportation Department said.



Although the downpours were expected to ease Tuesday, the landslide danger will linger for several days on bluffs and steep hillsides, the weather service said.



The heavy rain prompted flood warnings on the Stillaguamish, Snoqualmie and Newaukum rivers and a flood watch for many other rivers in the western Washington.



Grays Harbor County Sheriff Rick Scott said a dozen inmates of the juvenile detention facility on the banks of the Chehalis River in Aberdeen were moved to the county jail as a precaution. They would be moved back Monday afternoon, he said.



Flooding threatened the water treatment plant for the Naselle Youth Camp, a correctional facility operated by the state Department of Social and Health Services, said Mark Stewart, a spokesman for the state Emergency Operations Center.



In Hoquiam, the homes at the bottom of the Beacon Hill bluff have always been a problematic area, Meyers said, but this is the worst he's seen in nine years.



Emergency responders are having a hard time moving around because of street flooding and the closure of main highways because of landslides.



Schools in Aberdeen and Hoquiam are closed, and residents were urged to stay home except for emergencies.



Flooded roads also were reported in Snohomish, Lewis, King, Pierce, Mason and Skagit counties. SR 202 was closed Monday afternoon at SR-303 due to a foot of water over the road, Trooper Chris Webb said.



In Snoqualmie, city officials told residents in the South Park Street neighborhood to evacuate Monday evening due to flooding. A shelter was set up at the Snoqualmie Valley YMCA on SE Ridge Street. Students were also evacuated from Snoqualmie Elementary School Monday afternoon and bussed to Mt. Si freshman campus as a precaution.



In Lewis County, the Skookumchuck and Chehalis Rivers flooded, as did China Creek, which inundated a 10-square block of downtown Centralia. The Red Cross said only four people there requested help, mainly from flooded basement apartments.



The Tolt River was also on Flood Warning.



"This is as high as I've seen it, and I've been here since '82," said resident Donald Newman. Water came over Tolt River Road, leaving a handful of families cut-off.



Over in Sultan, crews are working to rebuild a washed-out Sultan Basin Road -- the only route to Spada Lake and the Culmback Dam.

As of Monday, the road was closed at the Olney Creek Bridge because of flooding damage.



And the rail line between Seattle and Everett will be closed to passenger trains until Wednesday after trees and mud slid over the tracks there at about 9:20 a.m. Monday. Freight traffic will continue on the line.