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| Monday, January 10, 2005 |
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Mud slide coverage 
| | Somewhere around here I have some pictures I took of that hillside, in expectation of what happened today. |
| | I see Amtrak is cut off here and there, and downed transmission lines cut off power to radio and TV stations on Mt. Wilson. |
Told you so
| | They wrote a book about commanding a company, "Taking the Guidon," which they posted on a Web site. Because of the Internet, what had started as a one-way transfer of information — a book — quickly became a conversation. |
Why the mountains win
| | The snout of the debris flow was twenty feet high, tapering behind. Debris flows sometimes ooze along, and sometimes move as fast as the fastest river rapids. The huge dark snout...was moving nearly five hundred feet a minute and rest of the flow behind was coming twice as fast, making roll waves as it piled forward against itself-this great slug, as geologists would describe it, this discrete slug, this heaving violence of wet cement. Already included in the debris were propane tanks, outbuildings, picnic tables, canyon live oaks, alders, ... mile downstream and buried in the reservoir behind Big Tujunga Dam. Thirteen people were part of the debris. Most of the bodies were never found. |
Loose links
| | Dave: ... so much TV, so little vision for the future. |
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