Glad some peeps like it when I share my adventures, misadventures and peculiar way of seeing the world through my lenses.
I consider my self amazingly blessed and lucky!
I agree with you LWJ- "The whole thing was avoidable"
After the slide there was a big effort to use Lidar imaging in that general area and it shows multiple slide zones that have happened over hundreds of years, this was not the biggest by any means.
The existence of a slip zone up above the river on the hillside that slid should have been a sign that trouble will happen at some point. This one came down and covered about a square mile blocking the river for a time and destroying 49 homes.
There is a similar hill side up the Mt. Loop highway not far from Oso as a crow (or a Crowbob) flies.
The difference is there are no residences and no development other than the road going through it and a campground that did get closed for a time out of concern for another slide.
Hopefully the use of Lidar and common sense will avoid building in slide prone areas, and this area will obviously not be rebuilt... it looks to me like it was built on top of and old slide that created come nice flat-ish ground for the neighborhood.
