Back in 2014 local public radio did a story on The Little Street at the Bottom of a Landslide-prone Bluff aka Y R people so dumb?
It’s no secret that Western Washington is prone to landslides. The combination of glacial soils, steep slopes and water creates a risk that’s greater than in other parts of the U.S.
And it’s not just river valleys like the one near Oso: The region’s coastal bluffs are also danger zones that have experienced large landslides in recent decades.
But that still doesn’t deter people from living in those slide-prone areas.
Because people are just that dumb.
… Read the restRuth Trail has lived in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle for 23 years.
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