# Landslide in Washington State--any witnesses?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landslide-in-washington-state-any-witnesses/684361>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 23, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landslide-in-washington-state-any-witnesses/684361 "2014-03-23T15:35:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landslide-in-washington-state-any-witnesses/684361/21 "2014-03-26T21:01:04Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> How they managed to squeeze this into the 23:57/day coverage of the missing airliner I’ll never know!
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> :dubious:

Any bets on when the “BREAKING NEWS: MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT 370” headline will disappear from their web site?

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**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landslide-in-washington-state-any-witnesses/684361/22 "2014-03-26T21:30:14Z")

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[Here is a really good write up](http://space.io9.com/hazard-risk-and-the-steelhead-landslide-in-washington-1551357211/@charliejane) about the slide in particular, and the mitigation efforts undertaken in a landslide prone area.

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landslide-in-washington-state-any-witnesses/684361/23 "2014-09-24T00:46:53Z")

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After 6 months they finally reopened the highway (the highway was realigned and raised up 20 feet in some places):  
[http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Traffic-resumes-on-highway-hit-by-deadly-landslide-5775913.php](http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Traffic-resumes-on-highway-hit-by-deadly-landslide-5775913.php)

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