Conditions could change with Palouse River expected to rise 4 feet over flood stage tonight.
Via the Moscow-Pullman Daily News:
Despite warnings from the National Weather Service, Potlatch Public Works Director Tom Andres was not fretting over the possibility of flooding even as the Potlatch River continued to rise Tuesday.
“I don’t think we’re going to flood,” Andres said, adding he was not preparing sandbags or making any other flood preparations. “It’s still got to come up 4 feet before it causes too many problems.”
The river measured at 14.4 feet at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, still below the flood stage of 15 feet, according to the NWS’s website. The river was expected to continue to rise throughout the night and this afternoon before cresting at 19.3 feet tonight.
If the forecast holds, the NWS expects water to be over Flannigan Creek Road where it crosses the Palouse River just downstream of Potlatch and extensive flooding of low lying areas between Potlatch and Palouse.