108 people missing in mudslide

[OkieGranny]

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/07/22/3762783/last-body-found-in-deadly-washington.html

Search and rescue personnel believe they found Tuesday the last body from the March 22 mudslide that killed 43 people at Oso, Washington.

Although the active search for victims ended in April, workers have been screening debris and watching for the body of Molly Kristine "Kris" Regelbrugge, 44...

Her body was found about 8 a.m. in an area where personal items believed to belong to the Regelbrugge family had been located previously, the sheriff's office said Tuesday.

 

[OkieGranny]

Really good feature article on the slide and its aftermath:

http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-...-responders-of-the-oso-mudslide-november-2014

A heavy, soaking rain moves in and doesn’t stop. Places that were accessible start to flood, and some searchers switch to boats. There are still helicopters with thermal imaging cameras, but most people are on the ground, slogging alongside heavy equipment, picking through fragments for clues. They build a network of wooden paths to navigate the slide. Counselors and chaplains come to meet with traumatized searchers ending their shifts. Jan McClelland finds the body of a little girl about the same age as her granddaughter. “You do keep going,” she says later. “But you lie in bed at night, and you think about her.”

On Wednesday, Dayn Brunner gets a call on his cell phone. It’s about the Subaru. Someone spotted a thin blue sliver in the mud, then dug to find the car about three feet down. By the time Brunner arrives, enough mud has been removed that he can be sure it’s his sister. He calls his mom to let her know that after five days he’s done what she asked. Then Brunner, his son, and a group of volunteers start to dig.

The roof is gone and the car full of mud, but Raffo, they find, still has her seat belt on, her hands on the steering wheel, her right foot on the gas pedal. There’s a grim relief: Like nearly everyone who died, she was killed quickly.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

The baby who touched America: Duke, the little bundle plucked from the Washington mudslide that killed 43, brings joy and hope to devastated town with 'amazing' recovery

Amanda Skorjanc's son, Duke Suddarth, was the youngest survivor of Oso mudslide that killed 43 people March 22, 2014

Duke was pulled from the rubble by Good Samaritan after suffering skull fracture

His mother sustained broken bones and other injures when their house was destroyed and their were carried by mudslide 600 feet

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-year-baby-rescued-rubble.html#ixzz3SmLX1v6c

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

DEADLY MUDSLIDE

A mudslide hit Oso, Washington on March 22, 2014, devastating a small, remote community. NBC News covers the victims, first responders and others who have been personally affected by the tragedy, as well as the science behind the slide.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/de...-remember-oso-mudslide-one-year-later-n327931

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Stranger pays off Washington landslide survivor’s $360K mortgage

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...lide-survivor-360k-mortgage-article-1.2196312