EVERETT — Heavy rain on Friday morning flooded some homes and businesses around town, while Community Transit buses detoured around standing water at Everett Station.
Everett’s Public Works officials received 40 service calls, said Greg Moore, a spokesman for the department.
“Most of them have to do with ponding of water on roadways and manhole covers being displaced,” Moore said.
There were initial reports of four businesses with flooding problems along Broadway and Rucker Avenue, he said. By midday, Public Works officials had received three or four reports of basement flooding in homes around the city.
“We haven’t determined the cause at this time, but we’re addressing them,” Moore said.
Everett’s stormwater system often has trouble handling heavy rain. That’s particularly true in older neighborhoods with combined sewer and stormwater systems.
Friday’s rain left several inches of standing water at Everett Station. To prevent passengers from getting soaked at the terminal there, buses detoured to Broadway for about 40 minutes, agency spokesman Martin Munguia said.
Gauges at Paine Field recorded nearly two-thirds of an inch of rain between about 8:30 and 10:30 a.m., said Josh Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Seattle. More bursts of rain were possible Friday afternoon in the convergence zone between Everett and the Snohomish-King county line.
Forecasters predicted improving conditions over the Labor Day weekend: cloudy skies and a slight chance of showers on Saturday, with partly sunny conditions on Sunday and Labor Day.
Noah Haglund: 425-339-3465; nhaglund@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @NWhaglund.
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