Washington landslide

guypjfreak
guypjfreak Posts: 2,281
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truly terrible you cant comprehend the size till they show it from the air .
hope nobody here has any one involved in it stay safe .

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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Such an awful, awful way to die, let alone lose people you love...close to 200 it seems, counting those still missing.

    Even having seen the aerial views, I still can't fully get my head around it.
  • guypjfreak
    guypjfreak Posts: 2,281
    amazing that they pulled a 4year old baby out those rescuers are an amazing bunch of people .
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    we're only gonna see more of these incidents ...
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Here's a link with some footage of a mudslide in BC:

    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-brew/b-c-mudslide-caught-camera-lake-174614030.html

    They have always been around and you are right... we have not seen the last of them.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    This is so horrible.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,676
    Main cause seems to be all the rain but logging is probably a factor as well.

    I have a good deal of family up that way in WA but they are all safe. I really feel badly for those who lost love ones up there.

    It occurs to me that I live in a house that was built on a site that was carved out of a hillside. I shouldn't think about these things before bed time.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Of course, as fate would have it, it occurred on a Saturday morning when everyone was at home.
    "My brain's a good brain!"

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