A mudslide from Mt. Shasta crosses Pilgrim Creek Road in northern California on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014. (Photo/U.S. Forest Service/Steve Bachmann)Posted on 09/25/2014 2:18:44 PM PDT by B4Ranch
U.S. Forest Service officials continue to monitor a mudslide that occurred Saturday at Mt. Shasta in northern California.
The mudslide began around 3 p.m. PDT Saturday and continued through the night in Mud Creek Canyon, a Forest Service spokeswoman said in a news release.
The cause of the mudslide is believed to be due to the drought conditions which have left Mt. Shasta's glaciers exposed to the sun's heat.
A mudslide from Mt. Shasta crosses Pilgrim Creek Road in northern California on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014. (Photo/U.S. Forest Service/Steve Bachmann)
A mudslide from Mt. Shasta merges into the McCloud River in northern California on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014. (Photo/U.S. Forest Service)
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And the drought is caused by man-made globull warming.
Warming causes cooling, and drought causes mudslides.
A small portion on the lower side of one of the glaciers broke
off and starting melting at a much faster rate, causing the
mud slide. Normal thing to happen....we have much better
pictures in our local rag.
The cause of the mudslide is believed to be due to the drought conditions which have left Mt. Shasta’s glaciers exposed to the sun’s heat.
The cause of the mudslide might be caused by molten lava ready to go “POP”.
Warming causes cooling, and drought causes mudslides.
Drought can cause mudslides. When there is plenty of water in the winter and spring, lots of ground cover plants grow and thrive. These plants become part of a hillside. They can last for so many months without water. Then, during the next year’s rainy season, rain mostly runs down the hillsides with the surface intact, protected by the plants. If there wasn’t enough water to support surface plants, the rain after months of dry dust will wash down the side of the dusty mountain and cause the soil to slip with no support.
This is why when we joke that California has two seasons, fire and mudslides, it’s partly true. Fire removes all that protective small bushy growth from a hillside as well.
Fire ,Rain ,Shake ,Mud = California
Redding, CA must be one of the few places you can stand outside in 110 degree sun and look at the snow covered peaks of Mt Shasta. Beautiful.
Mount Shasta is looking a bit brown this year. Little snow left. Only the glaciers.
Nah, for that to be true we would have to have a number of 6+ earthquakes on the Pacific rim as close as Alaska within the last week or two...
...oh...
OK, so drought can cause mudslides. But the explanation that drought leaves glaciers exposed and that makes them melt faster is a bunch of BS. Shasta is always covered with snow. I have seen it in dry years and wet years. It looks the same. But they are willing to say anything to sensationalize any coincidence.
The cause of the mudslide might be caused by molten lava ready to go “POP”.
Nah, for that to be true we would have to have a number of 6+ earthquakes on the Pacific rim as close as Alaska within the last week or two...
...oh...
You’re right. Heating up the earth from underneath crossed my mind.
Yeah but if Shasta was about to pop and the earthquakes were related and/or the cause, you’d think that Rainier and Hood would be likewise affected. (They aren’t)
Y’all are gonna need a few sediment control wattles for that one...
mudslide began around 3 p.m. PDT Saturday and continued through the night in Mud Creek Canyon
If it’s named Mud Creek Canyon, it must have happened before.
Shasta is such a beautiful place.
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