Mudslide gif pre/post slide, Incredible! Update and article also

[uppityperson]

16 deaths declared, 9 other bodies not released, 90 on missing list. More will be released from medical examiner today and moved to death list.



In depth article on it all.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oso-washington-mudslide-another-body-spotted-in-debris/

[Mnemosyne]

1. Simply horrific. nt

[Marrah_G]

2. This story is hard to even wrap my brain around

It's so unbelievably horrific.

[B2G]

3. Looks like the area that gave way

has been the source of slides in the past.

[Richardo]

4. The place used to be known as 'Slide Hill

They rattled of at lease six prior ones on NPR last evening, ranging from 1949, to (I think) 2006.

not like it happened in distant pre-history.

[uppityperson]

5. There was a smaller one in 2006 (If I recall the date correctly). They are studying

now who said it was safe, who said unsafe, how far who thought it would slide when it did again, etc etc etc. It will take a bit for it to all come together as far as that goes but yes, it has, they knew it would again but as far as how far?

[CANDO]

6. This should cause efforts...

by local authorities everywhere to disallow homes from being built near slide prone areas. Certain areas of California comes to mind. These geologic areas are very dangerous because it's obvious there is no underlying rock foundation. It's just a mountain or hillside of dirt and very little rock.

[uppityperson]

7. Indeed. I have been thinking being a geologist is a lucrative profession right now.

They knew this would slide again, just differed as far as I can tell, in how much and how far and I think the mass of it took them all by surprise.

[MerryBlooms]

8. That gif shows what appears to be

a fissure in the mountain pre slide.

TY for the article, it's done very well.

[uppityperson]

9. Yes, it had slid before and there were differing opinions on what it would do in the future, how muc

much it would slide.