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Yes, soil saturation is another inherent problem in this area. Anyone remember our huge Osso mud slide of a decade ago? Took out most of the town of Osso and killed dozens. Tragically, the USGS had flagged that very hill way back in the 1950's, if not earlier, as enough at risk as to ban development below it. Alas, someone sued and won that right. We see how that worked out. But I digress.
Much of our forested land is in a similar state of saturation. Think big blobs of pudding with trees growing out of them. Too much additional water too quickly and it breaks over the point where that particular mass at that particular slope just can't hold any longer and down it comes.
We do, periodically, get earthquakes as well. Shake that mound of pudding and it takes much less saturation to make it come down. That's what happened in Osso. Thank God we have not had an earthquake in the middle of all of this.
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