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Until Next Time Delirious Turmoil Life in a floating home during the 1996 flood written by Clay Sparkman IN 1995, I DECIDED a change was in order. I had lived all over Portland since my birth in 1959, and though I loved it, I had always wanted to live in a floating home. In December 1995, I found just what I was looking for—a two-story floating home on the Multnomah Channel, the waterway that separates the old granddad Columbia River from Sauvie Island. My home-to-be had a Scappoose address and was about 20 miles north of Northwest Portland via Highway 30. I bought the property just in time for the great flood of 1996 to come rushing in. My life was a state of delirious turmoil for at least ten days. The week of the flood, I managed to move a few things into my home by wading through rising water, which at that point was about chest-high. As the days went by and the water continued to rise, I couldn’t get back to my new home. Highway 30 and alternate routes were all closed. Later in the week, I saw a chance. I grabbed my drysuit and a life preserver and raced toward my new home during a momentary road opening. Along the way, I saw all sorts of madness—herds of cattle bunched together and stranded on tiny, disappearing islands in the channel, mudslides and fallen trees, new waterfalls and streams beside and across the road, and houses and farms giving way to the rising water. I settled into my new home as best I could. They evacuated the moorage next to mine on my first night there, and most of the residents of Castleman’s Wharf chose to seek higher ground. The moorage quickly ascended toward the tops of the moorings, the long vertical logs that anchored the entire moorage in place. Ordinarily the moorings show about 20 feet above the water line, but that had dropped to about 7 feet from the top that evening, with no end to the flooding in sight. Two of us decided to stay with our houses. I buddied up with my neighbor Eric, an eccentric sculptor who owned a canoe, an item that might prove useful at a moment’s notice. After preparing for a possible evacuation (not a great mental exercise, as I realized that not much was worth saving short of my old gray snaggle-toothed cat, Parsifal), we settled back, drank good wine and brandy and listened to Caribbean music, dancing up and down the wooden planks of the moorage. When you have done all that you can, there is nothing left to do but party. Just before going to bed at about 3 a.m., the world was deathly quiet. I slept deeply for eight hours and awoke to a world of hope. The rain had stopped and the sun was beginning to appear. It seemed like a whole new world. We still had 4 feet left on our moorings—a dangerous situation due to the extreme leverage placed on the moorings by the weight of the fast-flowing water. And yet I felt sure that the worst was over. The week that followed was a surreal adventure, and more often than not, a pain in the ass. I had to purchase a canoe in order to boat back and forth from my home to dry land, a good quarter-mile away. As the week unfolded, the dumpsters were dragged out of flood waters and placed upright again, the well water restored to a state of purity. The lights on the previously underwater access road were repaired and the phone lines restored. And as the flood waters receded, the storage shed and satellite dish were de-mudded and gravel was laid over the oozing, stinking, putrid muck that remained. Life got pretty much back to normal, and I lived a good eight years on the channel before returning to Northwest Portland. After that initiation, the rest was a cruise. 120 1859 OREGON’S MAGAZINE MARCH | APRIL 2018
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