DNR pictures of the huge landslide are just incredible. I have a friend who has several family members who have lost everything, and guess what??? Insurance doesn't want to cover anything. There are a couple of houses that a under an estimated 100 feet of earth. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wastatednr/sets/72157622570021278/
Pics of the Naches landslide that blocked Hwy410
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And there were chunks of ice in there.....bizarre!
A co-worker drove by a couple days before the slide.....he commented to me...."what is keeping that up there, looks like an accident waiting to happen". more bizarre.
A co-worker drove by a couple days before the slide.....he commented to me...."what is keeping that up there, looks like an accident waiting to happen". more bizarre.
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firecatguy
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Yamamauler
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Incredible, the way the way slide trickled throughout the area is wild.
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HOLY CRAP!
Those are the first pictures I've seen that really capture just how BIG that slide was. I was thinking - Oh, they'll get 410 open next spring. Now I realize, yea right, THAT's not gonna happen.
I feel bad for those that lost everything.
Those are the first pictures I've seen that really capture just how BIG that slide was. I was thinking - Oh, they'll get 410 open next spring. Now I realize, yea right, THAT's not gonna happen.
I feel bad for those that lost everything.
The force and weight of the slide comming down was forcing the ground up ahead of it that was what buckeled the road and everthing ahead of it.
I own a cabin near Whistlin Jacks (cliffdell) and was over there this past weekend chasing bambi around the woods and noticed a lot of deer hunting camps and hunters were absent up the little naches, milk creek drainage and the nile probably due to the slide and the dot preventing no one except locals traveling from yakima and points east to bypass the slide area heading towards the west side of the pass. Construction crews have worked on dredging a new riverbed and widened the nile valley road to allow everyone to pass by now in both directions. With all of that soil covering the old road and river bed, the state will be building Hwy 410 up and over all of the slide material.
My parents live just a couple of miles to the west of the slide and were some of the people that were stuck on the other side, I live about 10 miles to the east of it just outside of Naches. The pictures of the house on the hill that shows the crack running right through it is some friends of ours. Total loss, She came by my house about 9 am that morning, 3 or 4 hours after the slide, and she didnt seem to concerned. What they didnt know was the ripple affect of the earth moving under them was going to destroy their house and many around it. It looks like the insurance will not be paying since it is what they call an "act of god". Unreal, they will loose it all and there are many just like them. I don't want to speak for anybody but it looks like there will be many people left with no choice but to let their mortgages foreclose for nothing that they did wrong. The properties have all been declaired unsafe and they are not even allowed to fix or rebuild as of now. TOTAL LOSS!
As for the highway goes, it sounds like it will be re-routed around the slide are, not over it. They say that it will follow the Nile road next to the south side of the valley. They talk like it will be a temporary fix for about a year and then they will go in and improve it's capacity to hand the traffic year round. It will be strange since I've lived in this valley most of my life and then all of a sudden it changes.
As for the highway goes, it sounds like it will be re-routed around the slide are, not over it. They say that it will follow the Nile road next to the south side of the valley. They talk like it will be a temporary fix for about a year and then they will go in and improve it's capacity to hand the traffic year round. It will be strange since I've lived in this valley most of my life and then all of a sudden it changes.
Augerin, i was up at my cabin (cliffdell) deer hunting last weekend and stopped in at WJ's saturday eve, definately deader than normal for hunting season as far as people there at the resort and bar. Asked the bartender if the slide was affecting biz and she said yes it was but that they (WJ's) had a killer summer for biz and should offset the lack of business due to the slide among other things.
KrazyKen, it makes sense to reroute the road along the Nile road with the heavy duty bridge crossing over the naches river at the east end next to the Wood Shed. Thats too bad for your friends and others who will have to lose everything. As i have driven that road numerous times i have always looked at that hillside and wondered when and if it would ever come down due to lack of stability.
Just wait till the river starts flowing hard. It's tough right now and the river is low. Really tough deal, but the Gov. Christine has been over there says she gonna do what she can. Better not hold your breath there.
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Good point on the river running low right now... We are forcasted to have heavier than normal rains this year. Could be an interesting spring.
Sorry for the loss of property,everyone ok? Good Luck getting the Gov. Christy to do much the last 4-5 years.
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Soccerd6
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wow.... forces of nature are truly amazing..... sorry to those who have suffered loss.
insurance doesn't cover an act of God? But if a tree falls on your house during a storm, you are covered? And that's not an act of God? Guess I better call my insurance agent and get educated..... find out what I'm paying for!
insurance doesn't cover an act of God? But if a tree falls on your house during a storm, you are covered? And that's not an act of God? Guess I better call my insurance agent and get educated..... find out what I'm paying for!
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Good point.. that wasn't making alot of sense to me. I understand the limitations on flooding: pretty standard. But earthquakes, etc, are usually covered. So we thought? phone call sounds like a good idea.
Hey, pretty good question coming from a calendar queen... "Ms. July"...
Earthquakes are NOT typically covered unless you have an earthquake rider on your policy. Talk to your agent about it.
Act of god?
what if you are a atheist and do not believe in god?
what if you are a atheist and do not believe in god?
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