7 year anniversary of the slide.

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I saw inslee's tweet about it earlier today, which reminded me of it.

I definitely remember that day for sure. A friend of mine who was a firefighter for snohomish county spent a few days in the search.

Many people lost everything. They went to work in the morning with a home, than later having nothing to return to. Some even worse with having missing/lost family members.

Sad day

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Drove near the area last Summer and just seeing the size of that hillside put it into perspective of how massive that slide was.
 

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Can’t even imagine how it would be like to see / feel your family/ kids die right in front of you, as you are able to do absolutely nothing...
 

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If Mt Rainier blows to the north side then the ensuing landslide and glacial flow is going to be off the charts as well, and I'm in the path, or so is the entire valley basically. I'm fairly close to the hills though so if it does go anytime soon I'm confident in being able to get out in time, even if it means doing it on foot.
 

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If Mt Rainier blows to the north side then the ensuing landslide and glacial flow is going to be off the charts as well, and I'm in the path, or so is the entire valley basically. I'm fairly close to the hills though so if it does go anytime soon I'm confident in being able to get out in time, even if it means doing it on foot.
We have a weekly siren check for just this problem. Siren sounds of the Tolt Reservoir breaches, or a Rainer pop. Went off by accident last year, everyone left town like it was Dante's Peak w/Pierce Brosnan!
 

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We have a weekly siren check for just this problem. Siren sounds of the Tolt Reservoir breaches, or a Rainer pop. Went off by accident last year, everyone left town like it was Dante's Peak w/Pierce Brosnan!

I can hear Orting's sirens go off when they test them every month as I'm only about a 10min drive away. You know it's a test but it is a startling sound regardless. The day it becomes real is going to be chaos like no other.
 

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