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Anxious Wait for News Days After Deadly Slide
2014-03-29 03:41:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The grim work of recovery at the site of last weeks landslide in Oso was compounded on Friday by rain and wind, but also by growing anxiety over how bad the disaster might yet get, as emergency officials declined again to confirm numerous reports by volunteers and families about retrieved bodies. Officials have been slow to update the death toll, even as volunteers and family members working at the site, about 55 miles northeast of Seattle, reported numerous bodies that had been discovered and,...
Three+ Years Later, Federal Criminal Charges Expected in Deadly San Bruno Explosion
2014-03-28 22:27:37| IT Services - Topix.net
By Bay City News Service: PG&E Co. and its parent corporation announced Thursday they expect to be hit with federal criminal charges related to a fatal pipeline explosion in San Bruno in 2010.
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State Known for Landslides, Deadly Mix of Loose Sediments and Heavy Rain
2014-03-27 02:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The flow of mud, boulders and trees that overran part of the community of Oso on Saturday was the most lethal slide experienced in Washington in years, but the state is prone to the destructive events. At times, parts of the state have experienced a thousand or more slides over just a few days, according to state officials, although most are small and cause far more limited destruction. Lynn Highland, a geographer with the United States Geological Survey, said Washington ranks with Oregon and California...
Colorado state veterinarian educating livestock industry on deadly pig virus
2014-03-26 19:32:26| Livestock - Topix.net
As a virus wreaks havoc on pigs across the nation - killing millions of animals in the last year - officials with the Colorado State Veterinarian's Office are traveling the state, working to educate livestock owners on measures that could help prevent a devastating outbreak locally.
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Climate change: Too much rain caused deadly mudslide on unstable ground
2014-03-25 09:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: Authorities confirm 14 dead and 176 missing on Monday from the massive landslide that rolled through the rural neighborhood of Oso/Darrington north of Seattle on Saturday covering a square-mile area with mud and mangled trees as it laid waste to 50 structures. Experts say the cause of the landslide, which wasnt the first in the area, appears to be ground saturation after receiving double the normal rainfall for March, the sixth-wettest recorded since 1922, as explained by Johnny Burg, a meteorologist...
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