It's Gone: Mudslide and a community disappears

OSO, Wash. (AP) — First there was a "whoosh." Elaine Young said she thought it might be a chimney fire, a rush of air that lasted about 45 seconds. But when she stepped outside there was ominous silence. Something felt very, very wrong.

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And then she saw it. Behind the house, a suffocating wall of heavy mud had crashed through the neighborhood.

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