18 missing in mudslide

[Comshaw]

Not just a small one either. The whole fucking side of a mountain came down and blocked the Stillaguamish River. there is a flash flood warning down the valley all the way to Puget Sound. Everyone down stream are being warned to evacuate. The cause: twice as much rain in the first half of the month as we usually get through the entire month of March.

http://i1.mail.com/314/2732314,h=425,pd=1,w=620.jpg

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140323084329-01-landslide-0323-horizontal-gallery.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/23/us/washington-landslide/

Comshaw

 

[StrangeLife]

Never underestimate the power of mud.

 

[Saint Peter]

Is that beetle kill?

 

[Sinny]

With the way it has been pouring, I suspected flooding and river breaches were going to be a problem, but a slide disaster of this magnitude seems so unreal. I don't recall a slide of this size in this state ever, at least not in a populated area. I don't think the Rainier slide we had a half dozen years ago that washed out some of the park roads could even touch the size of this slide?

 

[Bert Notorius]

every other year the town my brother lived in would flood out, and there would be pictures on tv of dirty faced, pudgy kids sifting through the gooey river mud for dolls and trucks...and next it would be books and baseball gloves...the cynic in me always wondered why they didn't just move. it's like that kinnison skit:

"YOU LIVE IN A F***ING DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be 100 years from now? IT'S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A F***ING DESERT! We have deserts in America, we just don't live in them, a**holes!"

 

[Mr Noone]

...The cynic in me always wondered why they didn't just move. it's like that kinnison skit...

I guess for the same reason people who live in Tornado Alley or along hurricane prone coasts or near fault lines or volcanos don't move. It's home, and that's not an easy thing to give up.

 

[thør]

With the way it has been pouring, I suspected flooding and river breaches were going to be a problem, but a slide disaster of this magnitude seems so unreal. I don't recall a slide of this size in this state ever, at least not in a populated area. I don't think the Rainier slide we had a half dozen years ago that washed out some of the park roads could even touch the size of this slide?

Still, the stigma of a huge Rainier slide hangs overhead.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

A few years back, it was a very rainy summer and fall in Vermont.
Boulder chunks the size of pick up trucks were sliding down, into
the streets with the mud. We paid closer attention when we saw
"Falling Rocks" signs along the road. That was before the serious
floods started, and the water took the houses for a ride.

 

[Comshaw]

With the way it has been pouring, I suspected flooding and river breaches were going to be a problem, but a slide disaster of this magnitude seems so unreal. I don't recall a slide of this size in this state ever, at least not in a populated area. I don't think the Rainier slide we had a half dozen years ago that washed out some of the park roads could even touch the size of this slide?

I've lived here my entire life and am very familiar with most of the history of this small corner of the U.S. I know that many of the foothills here abouts are made up of glacial till, but a slide of this magnitude is shocking. There's been nothing of this size that I'm aware of since the Ozette slide in 1560.

But if Mt. Rainier decides to blow again, they say the Lahar will make this one look insignificant. I'm glad I live a bit west of there.


Comshaw

 

[Sinny]

I've lived here my entire life and am very familiar with most of the history of this small corner of the U.S. I know that many of the foothills here abouts are made up of glacial till, but a slide of this magnitude is shocking. There's been nothing of this size that I'm aware of since the Ozette slide in 1560.

But if Mt. Rainier decides to blow again, they say the Lahar will make this one look insignificant. I'm glad I live a bit west of there.


Comshaw

No shit. I remember when I was a freshman in college I took a geology class and we loaded up in buses and took a Puget Sound tour of remnants of the Osceola mud flow. Je.sus. that thing must have been massive. Hate to think what a modern one would look like.

 

[snugglestruggle]

18 missing in a mudslide isn't as sensational as a missing airliner. The media won't cover it with as much ferver although no less important. The 18 are somebdoys loved ones.

I heard they know where some people are burried and are trying to get them out. I'd like nothing better than to hear a lead news story ...18 rescued !

 

[Sinny]

18 missing in a mudslide isn't as sensational as a missing airliner. The media won't cover it with as much ferver although no less important. The 18 are somebdoys loved ones.

I herd they know where some people are burried and are trying to get them out. I'd like nothing better than to hear a lead news story ...18 rescued !

Was anyone suggesting a landslide was more newsworthy than a freakish disappearance?

 

[Mr Noone]

Was anyone suggesting a landslide was more newsworthy than a freakish disappearance?

So he herd.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I've lived here my entire life and am very familiar with most of the history of this small corner of the U.S. I know that many of the foothills here abouts are made up of glacial till, but a slide of this magnitude is shocking. There's been nothing of this size that I'm aware of since the Ozette slide in 1560.

But if Mt. Rainier decides to blow again, they say the Lahar will make this one look insignificant. I'm glad I live a bit west of there.


Comshaw

I never knew about the Hebgen Lake earthquake disaster until I drove through that area on vacation. Twenty-eight dead with 19 bodies never recovered and presumed to be under 90 million tons of rock and debris. That got my attention. I can't believe it hasn't occupied a more prominent spot in American history.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070707043600/http://www.billingsgazette.com/magazine/990815_mag01.html

 

[Lorilei]

It's really sad.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

wow...

 

[koalabear]

Snohomish County emergency management director John Pennington said the list of 108 names was pulled together from various sources that authorities are working from, and it doesn't mean there are that many injuries or fatalities.

http://news.msn.com/us/official-108-names-on-list-of-missing-in-mudslide

 

[koalabear]

http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_13/277796/140325-mudslide-combination-02_be9dccd21319d5c3bbf9322f3ad0d943.nbcnews-ux-1920-800.jpg


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/deadly-mudslide/after-photos-show-mudslides-destruction-n60596

 

[thør]

http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_13/277796/140325-mudslide-combination-02_be9dccd21319d5c3bbf9322f3ad0d943.nbcnews-ux-1920-800.jpg


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/deadly-mudslide/after-photos-show-mudslides-destruction-n60596

Hmmm.

Historical landslide in old pic. Scarp is definitely not stable. It was just a matter of time before it would come down.

The debris flow may continue to move. The new scarp isn't stable. It's just a matter of time before it happens again.

 

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