Posted on 04/14/2015 2:16:23 PM PDT by BBell
Witness John Hill saw the whole thing unfold. He was working nearby when he had a feeling something was about to happen. He went to his car to grab his camera and before he knew it, the 100 slope next to the freight train started fail!
I saw the hill start to go. It went down and hit the first car and it tipped over, then more cars kept tipping over. It was crazy how loud it was and how slow it all happened, he said.
There had been activity on the rain saturated slope earlier in the day which should have proved to be a warning. Most of the cars were carrying various types of mostly non hazardous freight and fortunately no tank cars.
The mudslide buried 20 feet of track under 10 feet of mud!
KOMO news stated that: The cliffs along the waterfront between Mukilteo and Everett are notorious for dumping mud, rock and trees onto the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks below.
BNSF has installed barriers, improved drainage and removed 13,000 tons of debris all along the waterfront line that these tracks cover and is continually doing slope restraint and repair.
Let us know if you have ever seen anything like this or the aftermath. We would love to hear about your experience!
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Why was the train on the camera?
“Why was the train on the camera? “
Try to stay focused, please. ;-)
They totally screwed up the headline. “Man grabs camera as train passes by. You won’t believe what happens next!!!”
There are always mudslides on that stretch. I’ll bet there are 10 a year.
Impressive although JB Hunt and its freight customers might not be as enthused.
Unfortunately, it’s also a case study in local news programming cliches as they take 10 seconds of interesting/shocking footage and add some entirely superfluous bookends.
Do we REALLY need a special correspondent in addition to the anchor to introduce it? Isn’t the correspondent in the ‘news room’ (read: office) actually in the same bloody building?
As a rule, BNSF has these mudslides removed within a few days. It happens every winter.
This is from like a decade ago.
Try to stay focused, please. ;-)
He just wanted to give the odd title some exposure.
I did not know that so I looked it up. On or about Dec 19, 2012. I’ve been suckered!!
Very impressive.
I feel like I just took a course in Journalism. I think I can report the news now.
Yeah. And just a little bit of it at that.
Holy Smoly, is right!
I’d hit that news gal harder than the mud hit the train.
All together now...
‘A family is homeless tonight after a three-alarm fire in the 2600 block of Smith Avenue. Officials say an alleged electrical short caused the blaze. The victims were transported to a local hospital for treatment....ad nauseum.’
Millions of people stand by with cameras pointed at everything, check your zipper!
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