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You can't get there from Bellingham; you don't have to go that far. US 20 (the North Cascades Highway) east from Burlington-Sedro Wooley is open, then south on 530 from Rockport a little past Concrete. It's about 2.5 hours, which is a hell of a commute. WSDOT has unusually cleared the Mountain Loop Highway early, which loops around south to Barlow Pass (still very snowy this time of year) and then Granite Falls. This is pretty rough going, with a long unpaved gravel stretch. Darrington's going to be in a tough spot until they reopen 530, which could be months and months.

This is going to wind up with more loss of life and almost as much property as Mt. St. Helens.
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"and it's possible some of the dead will never be exhumed"

- no, it isn't!

ALL of those killed will be recovered, unless you think that the mudslide some how buried people below the already existing ground level.

get an editor!
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Suddenly Charles gives a shit about rural, white, gun owning, truck driving, single family home owning folk. Excuse while I grab my barf bag.
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#3

And how many of these people are Prussian Blue-loving racist comment posters of the Seattle Times?

Gee, on a normal day of riding their duellies belching out metallic smoke along a tree-lined corridor, I'm sure they are listing to NPR and worrying about how Chindian taxi cab drivers are affected by Uber and how Kashama Sawant is going to them a higher minimum wage.

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@2 Of course it's possible. With that much mud and debris, and a river that could have swept bodies away. It's absolutely possible there could be bodies never recovered.
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@1: i have to figure they're clearing the MLH in case the access to Rockport is cut off for some reason. it takes forever to go that way even in summer.

@5: the question is how much debris will be removed?everything S of the highway will. the river's already carved back into it's original path. will steelhead drive be excavated? if not, that's where the bodies could stay unrecovered.

90 missing now. RIP.
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And the Rodney Dickwad Tom and Tim Sheldon-fucked-by-flip-flopping Repigs-corrupted State Legislature just decided to "wait until next year" on issuing a hold on coal and oil rail car exporting, too! These assholes are paid handsomely to do nothing. Look at what just happened in Oso, along Highway #530. This is just a sample of what's to come, folks, if we don't get the corruption out of our state and federal government!
The rich and corrupt DO NOT CARE about this dying planet or any of us.
They want it ALL, and the hell with the rest of us!
They want their own corrupted government, with a little help from The Tea Party, the Koch Brothers' Evil Empire, and the NRA.
Please think about this at election time. We seriously need to get Doug Ericson, Jason Overstreet, Vincent Buys, Rodney Tom, and Tim Sheldon out of office for the blatant failure to represent the people of Washington State!

My heartfelt condolences to all in or near Oso who have lost loved ones, their homes, and everything they had.

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@7: You had to get all that off your chest in this thread? At least you segued back on topic with your last paragraph.
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Some nice houses that are surprisingly cheap in that area.

http://www.redfin.com/WA/Darrington/508-…

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Don't reply to the troll.
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@11

Did you mean don't reply to the trolls?
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Troll(s)
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@6, Steelhead Drive is gone. They may never even find the foundations of those houses. There's not going to be any "existing ground level" like there was before. Those people could be ten, twenty, thirty feet down now. They're not going to excavate that to what it was. I don't think some people grasp the scale of this thing.

@10, don't get your hopes up. Darrington's a nice little town, but it's extremely isolated and not really suitable for commuting anywhere except Arlington or Smokey Point (which is a huge new city that's sprung up just in the last decade or so). There are cheap houses in the valley, too, but even Everett would be a tough commute. There's a reason why those houses are cheap.

There's a Snohomish bus that runs out 530, for you transit advocates, that takes you all the way into Everett -- change to another, you can get all the way to Tacoma if you have all day. Or was, until the slide.
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The transcript is up for the NPR story "Washington State's 'Slide Hill' Has A History Of Landslides."
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@10: here's what you had to say about it on tuesday: "Should I feel sympathy for someone's horse farm going under when I live in 825 sq. ft. and keep my nose to the grindstone?"

so are you more sympathetic now that you've discovered they might have less money than you thought, you vile piece of shit?

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@19 I know it's hard, but try to ignore SROTU's disgusting comments. Keep in mind that at the end of the day, the victims of this disaster were loved and respected by other human beings, which is something he will never experience for himself.
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@16
Since their "story" is an interview with the Seattle Times reporter who wrote an actual story, why not link to that? http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2…
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@8: I'm telling it like it is. If corruption in our state legislature doesn't change soon, we can expect more man-made disasters like the mudslide in Snohomish County and worse again soon.

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