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"Relatives learn mudslide victims may not be found" by Brian Skoloff and Lisa Baumann | Associated Press March 27, 2014
DARRINGTON, Wash.—With little hope to cling to, relatives of the missing are beginning to confront a grim reality: Their loved ones might never be found, remaining entombed forever in a mountain of mud.
A same group of people have been told the same thing except it's a watery grave.
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Trying to recover every corpse would be impractical and dangerous.
The debris field is about a square mile and 30 to 40 feet deep in places, with a moon-like surface that includes quicksand-like muck, rain-slickened mud, and ice. The terrain is difficult to navigate on foot and makes it treacherous or impossible to bring in heavy equipment.
To make matters worse, the pile is laced with other hazards that include fallen trees, propane and septic tanks, twisted vehicles, and countless shards of shattered homes....
The knowledge that some victims could be abandoned to the earth is difficult to accept....
They don't in war.
Wait, actually, they do. It's called missing in action.
A death certificate, issued by the state, is legal proof that someone has died....
Then Weissman never died and should be considered a prime suspect.
In previous mudslides, many victims were left where they perished. Mudslides killed thousands in Venezuela in 1999, and about 1,500 bodies were found. But the death toll was estimated at 5,000 to 30,000, so the government declared entire neighborhoods ‘‘memorial grounds.’’
I'm told ‘‘we have to get on with our lives at some point,’’ so....
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Have you noticed how fast so many environmental disasters like the oil spill in Galveston, the West Virginia and North Carolina coal ash contamination, and the alleged drought in California fade from coverage?
Landslides, foods, etc, are safe for coverage insofar as they don't step on any certain corporate or special intere$t.
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In only "sox" hours (sic; see how long they take to correct it)?!
I just thought while in the muck I would place some shit because it would be in there, too.
Which is more of a threat to you, Americans?
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
Only a photograph in my printed paper today, page A5, upper-left corner, Herculean search underway.
