Posted on 12/16/2007 12:37:03 AM PST by BurbankKarl
>>The mountain is a temporary pile of volcanic pyroclastic debris and was meant to flow away<<
I’ve never articulated it that way, but that is basically my position as well. Heck, does anybody in Seattle know why we call the Denny regrade the Denny REGRADE? That time we did it on purpose!
Did the 129 mph winds or the mudslide cause that?
I don’t see any slides in those pics. There’s erosion from runoff after soil saturation’s achieved, but the same would appear in the forested areas. Had there been slides, the stuff at the bottoms would be covered. It’s not. Hte heavy rain just made the surface like quick mud, which could be washed away easily. Those tree roots there in the forsested areas wouldn’t prevent that from happening. The forest does is hide the erosion that occured there.
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