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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,757 posts) Sun Apr 6, 2014, 04:26 PM Apr 2014

Habitat for Humanity to help Oso slide victims rebuild

by KING 5 News

Posted on April 6, 2014 at 1:07 PM

Habitat for Humanity of Snohomish County has announced that they will help families impacted by the Oso landslide repair or rebuild their homes.

Habitat has a goal of raising $1.5 million to help repair nine homes and rebuild 10.

Coastal Community Bank has established a fund to provide long term assistance in the form of safe, affordable homes to those who have lost their homes as a result of the Oso disaster.

“The thoughts and prayers of everyone in Habitat for Humanity of Snohomish County are with all those who have lost so much in the Oso Mudslide,” said Guinn Rogers, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Snohomish County. “Our organization is composed of compassionate volunteers who recognize the importance of home ownership and we are prepared to assist in whatever ways possible in the efforts to relocate, rehabilitate, or re-construct homes for those rendered homeless by this disaster.”

Habitat is asking for support from donors, volunteers, corporate partners and other community organizations. They are accepting offers of material and volunteer assistance in addition to financial support.

Donations to Habitat’s $1.5 million Long Term Recovery Fund can be made directly to Coastal Community Bank.

http://www.king5.com/news/oso-landslide/Habitat-for-Humanity-to-help-Oso-slide-victims-rebuild-254107371.html

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Habitat for Humanity to help Oso slide victims rebuild (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2014 OP

Great Good job Habitat. oldandhappy Apr 2014 #1

Nest up--thinking PREVENTION eridani Apr 2014 #2

Watch this, eridani... countryjake Apr 2014 #3

Won't be able to until I get Windows 78 eridani Apr 2014 #4

The last slide was in 2006 not 2001 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2014 #5

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)

1. Great Good job Habitat.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Apr 6, 2014, 05:01 PM

Apr 2014

Glad to see this. And, hope someone will helps them find a place to build that is not in that slide zone. Six slides is enough.

eridani

(51,907 posts)

2. Nest up--thinking PREVENTION

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Apr 7, 2014, 07:58 AM

Apr 2014

Authorities Knew of Mudslide Danger, but Didn't Tell Residents

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/22968-authorities-knew-of-mudslide-danger-but-didnt-tell-residents

As searchers look for the last of the missing in Oso, Washington, where a massive landslide virtually wiped out the small community, it’s becoming more obvious that authorities knew about but failed to fully heed the warnings of scientists that such a disaster was a real threat.

Not only that, they even considered – but then rejected – a suggestion that they buy out home and business owners whose properties lay just across the Stillaguamish River from a steep hill that had fallen away several times before.

The Seattle Times newspaper reported this week that Snohomish County officials analyzed the situation, finding that the costs of a buyout “would be significant, but would remove the risk to human life and structures.”

Instead, they decided to build a wall intended to stabilize the slope, leaving existing structures in place and allowing more to be built. Eight people in those newer homes are dead or missing from the landslide, including four children, the newspaper reported.

Experts studying the most recent slide – and the several that preceded it over the years, particularly one in 2001 – say this was a fatal mistake.

“[T]o my mind this was [a] foreseeable event, and as such the disaster represents a failure of hazard management,” writes Dave Petley, a professor of hazard and risk at Durham University in the United Kingdom and author of The Landslide Blog, which is hosted by the American Geophysical Union.