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Pacific NW Storms Close, But Don't Damage CUs

OLYMPIA, Wash.-The strong storms that roared through the Pacific Northwest last week led to the closings of several credit unions in Oregon and Washington, but no reports of damage to facilities. Some of the heaviest damage occurred in Lewis County, Wash., where Interstate 5, the main north-south motor link, was under 10 feet of water in parts. TwinStar CU, headquartered here, has two branches in the Lewis County towns of Centralia and Chehalis that avoided the floodwaters- barely. TwinStar CEO Marshall Ellison told Credit Union Journal the Chehalis branch is at a high point in the city, so it was spared. "In Centralia, at …