After record Stilly flood, Silvana family is 'stuck in this limbo area'

SILVANA — Dannika Prime and her fiance, Colyn Baldwin, were planning to host Christmas in their home off Pioneer Highway in Silvana.

But thanks to 4 inches of standing water in their house from record flooding, their holiday plans — and their lives — have changed dramatically.

Now, with less than two weeks until Christmas, the family moved themselves, including their 21-month-old toddler, Prime’s 80-year-old grandmother, their dog and their cat into a temporary home in Arlington.

Silvana was built on an island carved out by the Stillaguamish River. It saw some of the worst flooding last week when the river crested at a record-breaking 21.34 feet in Arlington, the highest recorded by the National Weather Service in the area since at least 1949.

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