Pics of the Naches landslide that blocked Hwy410

[Backcountry]

Heres the best info I have been able to find on the slide.

http://slidingthought.wordpress.com/

I would say those that moved in the area...pays to do your research...Maybe Im a nut job, but I look at that kind of stuff...I dont live in the Puyallup Valley for a reason. I live on a hill away from streams and rivers for a reason. I dont live near a bluff for a reason.

 

[ArcticBoy]

You have really checked all the geography in your neighborhood before you bought??? I guess no one should live in Tacoma or within 100 miles of any volcano which pretty muchs takes up western WA. Or perhaps Seattle because there is probably a better chance of getting wiped out by a tidal wave than what happen to these folks. It's just a case of some really bad luck and not the case of living on a river that floods every year.
As far as I know there was not a earthquake invloved with this slide and as for the insurance issue all I know is what my buddy said. They were not going to be covered according to their agents. But I too am checking out my policy a little more. I would seem insurance companies are always rebuilding areas in the south due to hurricanes and in the tornado alley.

 

[WAmtnsledr]

wow
that really sucks, those people lost everything....

 

[WHEREDAFUGAWEE]

Overheard some news this morning from one of the local tv channels that all the local people living between chinook pass east to the slide area should be prepared for up to 45 days of isolation due to the work being done around the slide area and the upcoming winter weather.

 

[KrazyKen]

Yes that is true, that's the warning that they are giving. They just want to make sure that some of the residents that are new to the area are prepared. My parents have lived up there for most of there lives, and that's where I grew up. We were always prepared for extended periods of isolation, power outages, etc. The problem is that they have newbee's (mostly retired city folks) that are freaking out, this type of thing is new to them. I know that the construction crews are bustin *** around the clock to get the river diverted and the new road in. It's a very big project. I don't think most people realize how big it is.

As far as the comments about not making good choices as to where to build. There was only one home that was in a questionable location. It was at the base of the hill side near the gravel pit. It is now buried under the slide. The rest of the houses, other than the ones affected by the re-routing of the river waters, where damaged by the earth shifting under them. It is a very strange site to see. There are homes 100 + yards away that were elivated as much as 5-10 feet, destroying them. I have friends that have a house on a bluff to the east, probably 2-300 yards from the slide, their house is split in half when the ground underneath split so to movement.
How do you ever expect something like that to happen? You can't plan for it.