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VA_Jill

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9. Scary sh!t

Reply to bigworld (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2014, 01:11 PM

Mar 2014

My son was caught in a mudslide once, just a small one. He was driving a car full of teenagers, 5 or 6 I think, doing about 20 mph, and the mud just came along, carried them down a hill and rolled them over. Nobody was hurt, thank goodness, but everyone was terrified and the car was totaled. Scary.

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108 listed missing in mudslide, report says [View all] bigworld Mar 2014 OP

Holy shit AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #1

Latest confirmed is 8 dead, 12 missing maxsolomon Mar 2014 #2

The population of the town is 180 Botany Mar 2014 #3

Some of it is based on utility workers that may have been in the area. AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #4

From the pictures I have seen it looks brutal ... Botany Mar 2014 #6

Yep. And when it settles, it goes from soupy muck, to concrete, in very little time. AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #7

If anyone wants to see the exact location maxsolomon Mar 2014 #13

Did somebody describe this as a square mile of moving quicksand-like mud? Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #5

Yes - KT2000 Mar 2014 #8

Scary sh!t VA_Jill Mar 2014 #9

Wow!!! Beacool Mar 2014 #14

That's bad. Even if the number is lower question everything Mar 2014 #10

Rescue officials working off a list of 108 unaccounted for uppityperson Mar 2014 #11

More from KOMO, local news with photos uppityperson Mar 2014 #12

Has anyone spoken about how they plan to relieve the pressure behind the earthen damn caused by rhett o rick Mar 2014 #15

the river has found it's way to the original (pre-1st slide) channel maxsolomon Mar 2014 #17

good news. Thanks. nm rhett o rick Mar 2014 #18

I haven't heard anything about the missing 108 in Washington this afternoon... Tx4obama Mar 2014 #16

A few more pictures, plat map, a couple links. uppityperson Mar 2014 #19

14 confirmed dead, Pres Obama signs emergency declaration uppityperson Mar 2014 #20

176 on the missing list. Some are very much in there, some they are not sure at all uppityperson Mar 2014 #21

People reported missing in Snohomish County mudslide, photos uppityperson Mar 2014 #22