90-year-old Sid Staswick, left from Smokey Point, Wash., gets a helping hand through the floodwaters of the Stillaguamish River by Don Vanney after Staswick attempted to drive his red pick-up truck across the flooded roadway December 11, 2004 in Silvana, Wash. Staswick was driving to his church to help them control the high water when he took the Pioneer Highway and got stuck in the rapidly rising waters. He thought he could make it because he was “born in a flood in Silvana ninety years ago.” » 90-year-old Sid Staswick, left from Smokey Point, Wash., gets a helping hand through the floodwaters of the Stillaguamish River by Don Vanney after Staswick attempted to drive his red pick-up truck across the flooded roadway December 11, 2004 in Silvana, Wash. Staswick was driving to his church to help them control the high water when he took the Pioneer Highway and got stuck in the rapidly rising waters. He thought he could make it because he was “born in a flood in Silvana ninety years ago.”

NEWS – FLOOD WATERS
HERALD PHOTO BY JENNIFER BUCHANAN
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Ninety-year-old Sid Staswick, left from Smokey Point, gets a helping hand through the flood waters of the Stillaguamish River by Don Vanney after Staswick attempted to drive his red pick-up truck across the flooded roadway in Silvana. Staswick was on his way to his church to help them control the high water when he took the Pioneer Highway and got stuck. He thought he could make it because he was, “born in a flood in Silvana ninety years ago.”