Hi Cecil and other listers, I lived in Vanport as a child, and recall attending kindergarten there. We had moved to Saratoga Street in Portland by the time of the big flood, but I think I remember a flood of some kind while we lived there 1946-1947. I remember driving on streets with several inches of water. It seems we were returning to get some items from the Vanport apartment we lived in. My stepfather was one of those veterans trying to return to civilian life. Geraldine Ingersoll The Vanport Flood washed away Vanport City, the largest public housing project ever built in the United States, at 4:05 p.m. on May 30, 1948, when the dike holding back the Columbia River gave way. The city, at one time responsible for housing nearly 50,000 people after construction was completed in 1943, was underwater by nightfall. Fifteen people died in the flood. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/vanport/