Camas sits at the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge, and that position decides the kind of damage we see here. When high pressure east of the Cascades drains cold air westward and Pacific moisture overruns it, Camas and Washougal take the freezing rain first and hardest — the January 2024 storm left burst pipes across the east county while neighbourhoods a few miles west barely iced. The rest of the year it is the long wet season working on hillside lots and the crawl spaces beneath them.
- Burst supply lines after a Gorge ice storm, concentrated in the east county
- Crawl space saturation through the October-to-April wet season
- Mold behind finished basement walls on sloping lots
Water, mold or fire damage in Camas: call United Water Restoration Group of Vancouver at (360) 550-9500.