Before and after of WA mudslide..

http://landslides.usgs.gov/monitoring/hwy50/

One of the USA's worst highway's for avalanches and landslides: Califorina's stretch of USA 50 through the Sierras.

Slopes over a certain degree of pitch and composed of volcanic ash (especially rhyolitic, the pale smooth stuff that makes a lot of dust) tend to slide once they get wet and their base is undercut.

GOOGLEARTH of the Washington slide reveals that this area not only has had slippages "in then past", but more recently than 2003.
 
Wow that's incredible. My heart goes out to all those involved.

50 is sketchyyyyyy, so's old 40. Also in Utah, SR 190 and SR210, Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons are buried multiple times annually in avalanches. Hell they even made a TV show about one of them and the snow removal crews!
 
Headline today says they're going to rebuild.

I bet they aren't getting FEMA or other funds for THAT.

We had guys in Nebraska by the Missouri with these two room fishing shacks (no plumbing) they'd call a cabin and collect money whenever they were flooded. Then they'd "rebuild" with particle board, tar paper, stuff scavengers or stolen from construction sites.
 
mycrofft said:
Headline today says they're going to rebuild.

I bet they aren't getting FEMA or other funds for THAT.

We had guys in Nebraska by the Missouri with these two room fishing shacks (no plumbing) they'd call a cabin and collect money whenever they were flooded. Then they'd "rebuild" with particle board, tar paper, stuff scavengers or stolen from construction sites.
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Sounds legit.
 
City should condemn that land around the area and force them to move somewhere else. It's obviously not safe there.
 
exodus said:
City should condemn that land around the area and force them to move somewhere else. It's obviously not safe there.
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I'd bet the whole area will be turned into a memorial.
 
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