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Mudslide halts trains between Seattle, Everett until Friday
2014-04-03 09:25:49| Railroads - Topix.net
Amtrak trains and Sounder commuter trains won't travel between Seattle and Everett for at least another day because of a mudslide.
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Number of missing in Washington mudslide drops to 13, official says
2014-04-03 04:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The number of people missing in the mudslide in Washington state has dropped to 13, down from 20 earlier on Wednesday, incident command spokeswoman Sheri Badger said. The reduction represents a sharp decrease from the days soon after the March 22 mudslide, when at one point authorities had received up to 176 missing person reports related to the disaster. The current death toll stands at 29.
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Steelhead Drive Is Gone After Mudslide, Along With Many Lives Lived on It
2014-04-01 20:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The words, recorded by the Snohomish County emergency response system in the frantic minutes after a giant wall of earth slid down the mountain here on the morning of March 22, were breathy and labored. "All the homes on Steelhead Drive are gone," a man said with long pauses between his words. Those eight words proved bleakly authoritative. Though there were victims from elsewhere in the narrow Stillaguamish River Valley among the 28 confirmed dead by the medical examiner and 20 others still...
Mudslide hits railroad track north of Seattle
2014-04-01 16:49:56| Railroads - Topix.net
A mudslide has hit railroad tracks that run along Puget Sound under a bluff about three miles south of Mukilteo.
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Emergency crews face toxic challenge in Washington state mudslide
2014-04-01 03:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Recovery teams struggling through thick mud up to their armpits and heavy downpours at the site of a devastating landslide in Washington state are facing yet another challenge - an unseen and potentially dangerous stew of toxic contaminants. Sewage, propane, household solvents and other chemicals lie beneath the surface of the gray mud and rubble that engulfed hundreds of acres of a rural community on March 22 and left dozens of people dead or missing, authorities said. The official death toll...
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