[NavyCanDo]

If Rain Comes? Wonder how long that Oregonian Staff writter has been living in the Northwest. This is the Pacific Northwest - Rains will come and that 160+% of normal snowpack is going to go someplace.

[justa-hairyape]

I think they were referring to, if rain came early and stronger then normal.

[poindexter]

This is the Pacific Northwest - Rains will come and that 160+% of normal snowpack is going to go someplace.

And before it runs off, the snow will absorb the water and weigh 5X more than it does now.

[r9etb]

If Rain Comes? Wonder how long that Oregonian Staff writter has been living in the Northwest. This is the Pacific Northwest - Rains will come and that 160+% of normal snowpack is going to go someplace.

THe problem is that "when rains come" means not some easy, gentle sort of thing, but rather a heavy, warm rain accompanied by chinook winds, which will melt all of that snow in a couple of days.

Historical note: Idanha was pretty much washed away by flooding in 1964.