Snohomish County Sheriff's Water Rescue Team returns with a couple rescued from their home after it became surrounded by water from the Stilliguamish River south of downtown Stanwood, Wash, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. The City of Stanwood sign is seen in the foreground underwater. Thousands of people are still out of their homes and hundreds of trucks are stranded along highways because of floods, mudslides and avalanches.
TV reporter Gary Horcher, of KIRO News examines the avalanche field at Hyak, Wash., on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, that damaged buildings, tore out ski towers and sent this hot tub adrift.
Interstate 5 is covered by the flooding Chehalis River Thursday morning, Jan. 8, 2009, in Chehalis, Wash. Rain and high winds lashed Washington state Wednesday, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides, flooding and road closures from rapid snowmelt and the three main highways across the Cascade Range were closed.
Curtis Wolfe, left, and Robert Robinson navigate a canoe around a tree to check on a neighbor's flooded home in Tacoma, Wash. on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. More than 30,000 people were urged to leave their flood-endangered western Washington homes as snowmelt and rain swelled rivers and caused mudslides and avalanches that engulfed neighborhoods and roadways.
Buddy Chambers pulls a waterlogged boat from his flooded home in Tacoma, Wash. on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009.
Railroad tracks run into flood waters of the Chehalis River Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, in Chehalis, Wash.
An emergency vehicle travels down a closed road that is blocked from the overflowing Tolt River, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, in Snoqualmie Valley, Wash. Rain and high winds lashed Washington state Wednesday, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides, flooding and road closures as the heavy snowfall that has buried parts of the state began to rapidly melt.
Workers scramble to remove a log jam on the Puyallup River in Fife, Wash., as the swollen river continued its record swell on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Incoming tide at the river's delta and continued rain had officials worried that the river would top levees and flood neighborhoods in Fife and Puyallup, Wash.
A resident keeps watch as rushing water laps at the top of the sandbags put in place to keep a river from flooding homes just west of the Snoqualmie Valley Trail, in Carnation, Wash. Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. A large tree punched a hole in the bank of the Tolt River, and neighbors came together to patch it with several hundred sandbags. Some said this is the highest they had seen the Tolt River in 30 years.
Lavon Wheatley, from left in boat, Leanne Church and Steve Church are rescued from their homes near Cougar, Wash., after Speelyai Creek flooded all escape routes, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Vancouver Fire Heavy Rescue 81, Fire District 6 Technical Rescue and Engine 71 from Cougar helped with the rescue.
Lavon Wheatley is rescued from her home near Cougar, Wash. after Speelyai Creek flooded all escape routes, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009.
Ellensburg Police Sgt. Brett Koss knocks on the door of a west Ellensburg, Wash. home surrounded by water Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, during an evacuation of the neighborhood. More than 30,000 people were told to leave their flood-endangered homes in Western Washington on Wednesday as rain and high winds lashed much of the state, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides and high water that could reach record levels.
Ray Hegel, left, and his wife Pat Hegel watch the Puyallup River rise outside a Sumner, Wash., apartment complex Wednesday Jan. 7, 2009. Sumner officials recommended many residents evacuate. The three main highways across the Cascade Range were closed and the National Weather Service issued flood warnings for a number of major rivers in Western Washington.
Arin Strom carries a sand bag to a bank along the Puyallup River in Sumner, Wash., Jan. 7, 2009. Sumner officials recommended nearly 400 residents to evacuate due to major flooding along the river.
Residents of South Prairie, Wash., work to protect a home from waters that escaped the banks of South Prairie Creek on Wednesday Jan. 7, 2009. Heavy rain on recent heavy snows caused flooding around much of Western Washington.
Residents of South Prairie, Wash., watch as waters from South Prairie Creek are restrained by sandbags in the center of town on Wednesday Jan. 7, 2009.
Ron Menge, center, with the Central Pierce Fire and Rescue puts up barriers to keep the Puyallup River flood waters from the roadway in Puyallup, Wash., on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009.
A boat goes past a stuck car on a flooded street near downtown Snoqualmie, Wash., Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Rain and high winds lashed Washington state Wednesday, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides, flooding and road closures from rapid snowmelt. At least three people were rescued by boat.
Michael Myers brings son Jayden, 4, and daughter Nicole, 15, by boat from their home on a flooded street near downtown Snoqualmie, Wash., Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009.
Willie Jensen, 17, paddles a kayak down a flooded street near downtown Snoqualmie, Wash., Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009.