Tornadoes, heavy rain batter Pacific Northwest

Cloudy skies in Seattle
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Though fall typically sees the American Southeast suffering extreme weather thanks to hurricane season, heavy storms battered the opposite corner of the country Friday night and into Saturday.

Two tornadoes hit Oregon Friday, damaging about 30 homes, and the remnants of a typhoon rained down on Washington State, where the Coast Guard had to rescue 46 people caught in the storm. Even stronger rain storms are anticipated in the region Saturday. Watch video of one of the tornadoes below. Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.