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Good afternoon. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning, and I want to

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it's Friday, December 19th. Shout out to our line workers, sandbag fillers, highway plowers,

and the many, many other workers

and volunteers who've kept at it today as we close in on two weeks of damaging floods.

It's been one of the most intense flooding cycles this state has ever seen.

Here's where things stand as we head into the weekend.

In King County, a couple of neighborhoods in Auburn are still under go-now evacuation orders because water has not fully receded from flooding earlier this week. Two shelters are still open there. In Skagit County, residents are encouraged to return home safely while remaining cautious of potential hazards. About 4,300 people do not have power this

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