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wherever you get your podcasts. Good afternoon on a soggy gray day. This is Seattle now coming to you

from the KUOW Newsroom, where we're pretty much all in rainboots today.

I'm Paige Browning with the roundup of today's top stories. It's Monday, December 8th.

Today was only the beginning of the atmospheric river, and the National Weather Service is warning people to be ready for major flooding throughout Western Washington.

Meteorologist Dustin Guy at the Weather Service says this atmospheric river is expected to dump

several inches of rain on the lowlands and up to 10 inches on the mountains by week's end.

And then in addition to the river flooding, we'll be looking at urban and small stream of flooding as well

just because of the heavy rainfall. It's going to take some time for all that water to drain off as well. So we'll be looking

at probably some flooding as well around the metro area over the next couple, three days.

The Skycomish River near Goldbar could rise by nine feet overnight. The Snoqualmie River and the Skagit River could reach major flood stage by tomorrow.

If you're in those floodplains, officials want you to place sandbags on your property.

People can get free sandbagging materials from the King County Flood Control District.

Just go to the King County website to find out where you can pick up those items. Most of the

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