Posted on 03/23/2014 9:35:47 AM PDT by tallyhoe
A mudslide Saturday along Highway 530, near Oso in Snohomish County, sent a huge chunk of this hill into the Stillaguamish River.
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WOW! That’s a pretty good chunk of hillside that sloughed off. Must be due to glo-bull climate differentials. That or evil woodsmen cutting down trees. Plus I think there is some more moisture headed that way next week.
Yea we have had 13 to 14 inches of rain in the last 2 months!!
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The main problem they have now is the Stillaguamish River is backing up behind a dam of mud and debris!!!
Here on the Gulf Coast there are places that we know will flood and you don’t build there. Or if you do you build the house on stilts.
What about places up there that are likely to slide off in a mud slide when there is heavy rain?
I just read that 18 people are unaccounted for as of this morning. Prayers up.
That has potential to wreak more havoc downstream.
You get 14 inches of rain and it don’t matter where you build that mountain came down!!!
God help those trapped.
When we get 14” of rain bad stuff happens here too but it won’t be a mud slide. Scary.
When you do get that much rain do people leave their houses in anticipation of a mud slide, like we run from a hurricane?
Nope you stay put!!! Unless the Powers to be say evacuate!! I don’t think there was any warning...
Nope you stay put!!! Unless the Powers to be say evacuate!! I don’t think there was any warning...
You live on a hillside and it has rained 14 inches and you have to wait for someone to tell you to leave?
I think you are pulling my leg.
I think I just heard on the news that there were 100 people missing. Tragic! Awful way to go.
Well You stay put unless your really unlucky... some people got buried when they were on the road... Not all hills are unstable.
Wouldn’t you know which hills were unstable BEFORE you decided where to build your house? I can see if you were driving past a hill that was unstable but building on one?
Well I’ve lived here over 60 years and you either live on a hill or you live by a hill in the Pacific Northwest.. This area was all formed my Glaciers.. You live next to a river or close to one.. We have lots of Rivers and Streams and this place is like other area’s when you get too much water it has to go somewhere and we don’t normally get 14 inches of rain in 1 1/2 months.. Plus the snow melt makes it a little iffy!
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