Notes from the Landslide
A book collecting writing produced on social media or local Sitka media in the course of the August 2015 landslides and recovery efforts.
A book collecting writing produced on social media or local Sitka media in the course of the August 2015 landslides and recovery efforts.
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Afterword<br />
By Samantha Cox<br />
The day began like any o<strong>the</strong>r typical sou<strong>the</strong>ast Alaskan deluge-stricken<br />
morning. As torrential rains wetted our ground, it was<br />
still half-exciting to see <strong>the</strong> power of our wea<strong>the</strong>r at work.<br />
That morning as I drove my children to school I noticed that my<br />
road was washing out and was pleased to see how hard our City<br />
workers were working on resolving <strong>the</strong> issue.<br />
The website I moderated, Sitka Chatters, was quiet that day, with<br />
exception to <strong>the</strong> typical business advertisements, complaints about<br />
o<strong>the</strong>r drivers, and curiosity over sirens that were heard.<br />
It didn’t take long for <strong>the</strong> horror to settle in to <strong>the</strong> bones of locals.<br />
Three of our own were missing in a catastrophic landslide. And we<br />
weren’t talking about a little mud trickling down a hillside. This was<br />
<strong>the</strong> kind of landslide that roars like a freight train and brings with it<br />
a seemingly unending amount of rip-roaring old-growth trees and<br />
hundreds upon thousands of pounds of suffocating mud.
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