PHOTOS/VIDEO: Mike Leaf paddled through some of the worst flooding he’s ever battled in his front yard in a canoe Sunday morning, after a week of heavy rainfall and back-to-back atmospheric rivers. He’s lived along the Green River in Auburn for 25 years and said he’s never dealt with such high floodwater. Leaf told KOMO News that water reached 14 inches in his garage and another 17 inches in their shop.

Thankfully, no water has entered his home. “We’re just fortunate that it didn’t go up another inch, inch and a half,” Leaf explained. “Then that would’ve been in the house, and we’d be in a hotel or something.”

KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

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