MONROE — It was a hectic morning at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds on Tuesday as farmers and owners of horses and cows came by in trailers to keep their livestock safe from rising waters.

James Bundy, who was working with his family to transport black cows to the fairgrounds, said they made the call after a new forecast showed higher floodwaters. The 114-acre family farm is close to the Snohomish River, and he was hoping to get ahead of forecast major flooding.

The family members made trips between the farm and the fairgrounds all morning to move 13 cows, five horses and a donkey. Bundy said the farm has moved the animals to the fairgrounds as a precautionary measure in the past.

“It hasn’t been that bad in the last five, six years, but they’re predicting the floods to be worse than 19

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