deluge

The 1963 rupture of a city dam, releasing a deluge that destroyed 260 homes and killed six in the community below, set in motion a slow-moving campaign to extract a public benefit from the disaster.

In Umatilla, a public spat over how to manage a deluge of new revenue devolved into a legal fight between the mayor and other city leaders.

Over the weekend, state and local food banks scrambled to prepare for a deluge of need.

However, we believe this supply deluge will eventually ease.

The county’s lawyers and politicians have become increasingly loud critics of the law, which they say has left them facing a deluge of decades-old claims with no records.