Washington state residents urged to ‘go now’ as flooding causes levee breach

Residents near a breached levee in Washington state were told to evacuate early Tuesday, just hours after an evacuation alert was lifted for residents near another broken levee in the same county.Police in the city of Pacific, about 20 miles (32km) south of Seattle, urged people in the evacuation area near the White River to “Go Now!”The levee breaches followed days of heavy rain and flooding that has inundated communities, forced the evacuations of tens of thousands of people and prompted scores of rescues throughout western Washington state.On Monday, a small section of the Desimone levee beside the Green River failed following a week of heavy rains, prompting an evacuation order covering parts of three suburbs. The evacuation order was lifted on Monday evening.The storm system that hit parts of Washington state and Canada this week has left more than a foot of rain, flooding many rivers to dangerous levels. Mudslides tore through communities.The intense weather is expected to last until at least Wednesday, and more rivers are expected to hit critical levels, the Seattle Times reports.