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OSO MUDSLIDE
Is slide work too risky? Safety and the fast pace of work prompt some locals to walk off the job
Park offers space to campers With the Gold Basin campgrounds closed because of slide concerns, Darrington bluegrass grounds will be open for free. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
toiling around the clock in 12-hour shifts since the cleanup began earlier this month. So far, they’ve cleared roughly half of the 900,000 cubic yards of
DARRINGTON — The Darrington Bluegrass Music Park is open for free camping Memorial Day weekend. The park’s owner, the Bluegrass and Country Music Makers Association, decided to open the site after hearing that landslide concerns had prompted the closure of one of the largest U.S. Forest Service campgrounds in the area. The bluegrass music park is on Highway 530 just west of Darrington and about 10 miles east of the Oso mudslide, which killed 41 people. For about a month after the March 22 landslide, disaster response personnel used the park to stage equipment and pitch tents. “The whole world came to our aid, so we’d like to help out how we can,” said Shellie Jones, a board member with the Bluegrass and Country Music Makers Association. The association organizes the Darrington Bluegrass Festival each summer.
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Crews operate multiple backhoes at least 20 feet above the original Highway 530 road surface, shoveling log-entangled mud and hauling it away in dump trucks at the Oso mudslide site on Friday.
By Amy Nile and Eric Stevick Herald Writers
OSO — Crews clearing mudslide debris from Highway 530 are making headway but the swift progress has come at a price.
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The Valley General Hospital Foundation gives more aid to slide victims, Page A3 Some workers have walked off the job, calling for the effort to slow down due to safety concerns and to allow them to better
inspect the material for human remains and lost personal effects. Crews also have discovered the force of the March 22 mudslide uprooted some 600 feet of the road. The workers have been
County: Building moratorium needs more research Herald Writer
EVERETT — A sweeping moratorium on new home construction near Snohomish County’s landslide areas now looks increasingly unlikely. Decision-makers want more
time to review changes to the building code to protect people and property from future mudslides, like the one that struck Oso on March 22. There’s also an increasing awareness that regulatory action, however noble the intentions, could have unintended consequences.
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“We just received different proposals from Planning and Development Services and it is my feeling that the council members need more time to digest this and consider options,” Councilman Brian Sullivan said Monday. The Oso slide killed 41 people, with two others still missing. It involved the collapse of a 600-foot-high hillside known as Hazel. Debris traveled 3,700 feet from the toe of the slide,
Which way? No way. Way: Burger King is scrapping its “Have it Your Way” slogan for “Be Your Way.” An executive said the new slogan makes a strong emotional appeal to people’s greater lifestyles (Page A9). If sales don’t increase, Burger King executives will go back to the “Have It Your Dear Abby. . . . B5 Good Life . . . . B1
spreading south across the valley, destroying 40 homes and Highway 530. State transportation officials hope to rebuild the highway by the time flood season arrives in October. The slide and its aftermath confronted county leaders with uncomfortable questions about building regulations, especially given that geologists since the late 1990s had warned that the
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hillside was likely to slide again. No one, however, anticipated the magnitude of what occurred. County Council Chairman Dave Somers last month suggested placing a temporary ban on new home construction within a half-mile of known landslide zones. Somers and his colleagues all but abandoned that proposal See COUNTY, back page, this section
hackers to steal 40 million customers’ credit card numbers, only earned $13 million in pay last year, though he will get $15.8 million in severance and another $33.1 million in deferred compensation (Page A9). Hackers, those numbers again: $13 million, $15.8 million and $33.1 million.
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Officials seek more time to study construction code changes in slide-prone areas and to consider options.
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