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Unforeseen risk of slide? Warnings go back decades"
Since the 1950s, geological reports on the hill that buckled during the weekend in Snohomish County have included pessimistic analyses and the occasional dire prediction. But no language seems more prescient than what appears in a 1999 report filed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, warning of the potential for a large catastrophic failure.
That report was written by Daniel J. Miller and his wife, Lynne Rodgers Miller. When she saw the news of the mudslide Saturday, she knew right away where the land had given way. Her husband knew, too.
Weve known it would happen at some point, he told The Seattle Times on Monday. We just didnt know when.
http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/2044879-8/unforeseen-risk-of-slide-warnings-go-back-decades
Chief Travis Hots of Snohomish County Fire Districts 21/22 said two more bodies were recovered Tuesday, bringing the official death toll to 16.
But Hots said searchers believe they have located eight more bodies that have not been recovered.
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Describing a visit to the mudslide, the veteran firefighter said the damage was worse than he imagined.
He said he initially believed that people who had been swallowed by the slide while driving on Highway 530 would be buried in their cars and could be rescued. But those vehicles are like twisted and tore up in pieces. ... Its just amazing, the magnitude of what this slide has done, Hots said.
Victims of the Oso mudslide
http://seattletimes.com/html/localpages/2023217526_highway530mudslide.html