12/12/2025
Update 12/12/25 @10:30am. We are grateful for the strong community response and volunteers! I just checked the cameras, and the store is dry, but we are still under evacuation orders downtown.
We have opened our homes to family and friends evacuated in Burlington. We are so fortunate not to be affected at home and to have a place to welcome them.
Fingers crossed we can reopen tomorrow.
Stay safe! 💖
As I begin to feel cautiously optimistic, I'd like to take a moment to express my immense appreciation for our community. These last few days have really shown what we are made of: people who care for each other and come together in times of crisis. I've lost count of the number of people who dropped everything to converge on downtown and help our businesses prepare and protect against catastrophic flood damage. It was incredible to see how our business owners rushed to each other's aid and just kept after it. Countless trips to obtain thousands of sandbags, so many sheets of plastic, miles and miles of steps up and down our streets and alleys, hauling those heavy sandbags to every opening at ground level. Each and every business downtown is more than a place of work and commerce, it is the repository of years of dreams and dedication, and you all clearly understand that. Our phones and social channels were full of offers of assistance, words of encouragement, and well wishes. We know that downtown is the heart of our community, and our community showed downtown its place in their hearts in a big way. Downtown is our place, and it matters because of our people. The connection has never been more clear, and our hearts have never been more full. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Ellen Gamson
Executive Director
https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/dec/11/thursday-update-skagit-county-under-evacuation-nooksack-river-at-cedarville-crests/