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CNN now reporting that the missing list is up to 176, although those are NOT confirmed residents.....just names that have been reported as possibly in the area and not yet contacted as safe.
 
My friend's uncle is among the missing.
 
Oh Leilei, I'm so sorry to hear that. What an awful thing to happen. Prayers for everyone. So very sad.
 
We're praying for her, Blondie. She got some more info this morning. He was working from home and the house is just gone. Her cousins are also missing. She's been sick and didn't know until she got a phone call early this morning :(
 
Canadian4 said:
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There isn't much to say, you know? Just lots of prayers.

176 people missing, some which may never be found. Entire families gone - in a blink. Dismembered bodies have been found, stripped naked from the force of the debris flow.

Nothing anyone can do but hold everyone missing and affected in prayer...

And so I do, and will.

Best-
Herding Cats
 
‘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.

“We’ve known it would happen at some point,” he told The Seattle Times on Monday. “We just didn’t know when.”

http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/2044879-8/unforeseen-risk-of-slide-warnings-go-back-decades

Also, this article which equates logging with landslides, And the comments sure are interesting:
http://community.seattletimes.nwsou...tion=DESC&column=rating&offset=0#post_5407332
 
AlwaysShocked said:
‘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.

“We’ve known it would happen at some point,” he told The Seattle Times on Monday. “We just didn’t know when.”

http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/2044879-8/unforeseen-risk-of-slide-warnings-go-back-decades
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That was very upsetting to read.

Those poor family's.
 
It has been terrible watching the poor families in grief on the news very sad. R.I.P to everyone who has died. Everyone who has lot members of their family and those who are still waiting for theirs to be recovered are in my prayers.
 
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023221942_mudslidetuesdayxml.html

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. ... It’s just amazing, the magnitude of what this slide has done,” Hots said.
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Oh gosh, the mother who has 3 children and her husband missing. One child rescued. I can't even begin to imagine. That just breaks my heart.

I remember seeing it on our news site when it happened but I didn't think it was too bad. Today I saw an article titled "The disaster nobody knows about" so I looked and I'm stunned.

How horrible to know that people could be alive but you can't get to them. That must be a truly awful feeling.
 
March 26, 2014 4:44PM

On Saturday, a tsunami of six-metres of debris and sludge plummeted down a slope in Oso, Washington state, taking out 49 homes and killing 16 people. Another eight bodies have been found, but not yet recovered.

In a town of only 180 people, there are 170 people missing under the rubble. If fears of the mass deceased are correct, it will almost wipe out the entire town.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/wo...n-state-mudslide/story-fni0xs61-1226865109115
 
Truly unbelievable devastation :( My husband and his company went to help search and remove debris. This pic shows the area quite well:

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My husband spoke to a frantic woman that stated her daughter was driving through and now she is missing. You can see the road there. What horrible horrible luck. There are just no words.

EDITING TO ADD- link below has footage of a child being rescued by a helicopter and also some disturbing information about 911 calls. Just wanted to give a heads up.
Picture credit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/us/washington-mudslide-search.html?_r=0
 
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