If You Wanna Complain About the Rain…

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News flash: It's raining hard, so hard this grim December evening that the city's Bureau of Transportation reports some street flooding around Portland.

We pass this on because the bureau's news release has some tips to clear the catch basin if your street is underwater ("use a rake or pitch fork," "Do not attempt to remove the grate," etc.) of debris. The bureau also has this number to call for help (503-823-1700) if you can't clear a catch basin and your street is starting to get that biblical feel to it.

Here's the entire release:

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