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California mudslides and chaos offer a preview of what El Nio could bring
2015-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The storm that slammed into the high desert and mountains of Southern California this week was one for the record books. Intense rain sent massive mudflows onto highways, picking up cars and pushing them into one another. Hundreds of vehicles were trapped in mud up to 20 feet deep; in some cases, motorists were stranded overnight. In one spot in the Antelope Valley, the storm dumped 1.81 inches of rain in 30 minutes on Thursday, in what the National Weather Service described as a 1,000-year rain...
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Mudslides halt Amtrak trains, affecting riders in Vancouver, Seattle and Portland
2015-02-09 17:41:48| Railroads - Topix.net
EVERETT, Wash. - Several mudslides Saturday on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks in the Seattle region have shut down Amtrak passenger train traffic between Seattle and Everett and Ridgefield and Vancouver until Monday, said a spokesman for BNSF.
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Mudslides halt passenger train service in Pacific Northwest
2015-02-07 23:16:07| Railroads - Topix.net
A new mudslide on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks south of Everett has shut down Amtrak passenger train traffic between Seattle and Everett. A different mudslide had covered the tracks on Friday.
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We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal
2014-12-18 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Between power outages, deluging rains, flash floods, mudslides and record droughts, California is quickly becoming unrecognizable all the bellwethers of an ecosystem out of whack. Thanks to a rapidly changing climate making wet regions wetter and dry regions drier, 2014 will be the hottest year on record and, if were not careful, the Bay Areas recent #HellaStorm will soon become the norm. Everyone in the state knows the severity of the problem: were in the midst of our worst drought in...
In U.S., Mudslides Common, But Usually Few Deaths
2014-03-28 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Washington state, with its many steep slopes, streams and rivers and some of the heaviest annual rainfall in the country, is a mudslide waiting to happen. Add in soil erosion from logging, as was reportedly the case near the community of Oso before last week's tragedy, and the probability of such an event increases. And, as we now know, this was just the latest in a string of mudslides in the area over the years as well as (apparently unheeded) official warnings about the potential for such a...
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