PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, flooding, snow melt, winds, and slides caused shoulder
washouts, filling roadway ditches and culverts with eroded soils
and debris, washout of gabion baskets, loss of bridge embankment,
and other damage in Cowlitz, King, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln,
Mason, Pacific, Pierce, Wahkiakum, Whatcom, and Whitman Counties;
WHEREAS, the Washington State Military Department has activated
the state Emergency Operations Center, implemented response
procedures, and is coordinating resources to support local
officials in alleviating the immediate social and economic
impacts to people, property, and infrastructure at an estimated
cost of $1,700,000 for the events;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Gary Locke, Governor of the state of
Washington, as a result of the aforementioned situation and under
RCW Chapters 38.08, 38.52, and 43.06, do hereby proclaim that a
State of Emergency exists in Cowlitz, King, Kittitas, Klickitat,
Lincoln, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, Wahkiakum, Whatcom, and Whitman
Counties, and direct the supporting plans and procedures to the
Washington State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan be
implemented. State agencies and departments are directed to
utilize state resources and to do everything possible to assist
affected political subdivisions in an effort to respond to and
recover from the events. Additionally, the Washington State
Department of Transportation is instructed to coordinate all
event-related assistance to the affected areas.
| IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the state of Washington to be affixed at Olympia, this 1st day of February, A.d., Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine. | ||
| Gary Locke Governor of Washington | ||
BY THE GOVERNOR:
Secretary of State | ||