Notes from the Landslide

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Chris Harshey, a carpenter who was working at a house at 210
Kramer Ave., said, “All of a sudden, I heard crackling and crumbling,
and then the lights flickered.”
He said he went outside onto the front porch to see what was
happening and saw “a sea of large logs, mud, more logs and a
slurry of muddy debris.”
He watched the slide destroy the home about 200 yards above
him, and damage part of another house a little closer to him
before “taking off into the woods.”
He said he couldn’t tell if the slide would stop before reaching
him, or which direction to go to escape.
“Not knowing which way to go,” he stayed put, he said, adding
it was all over in four minutes.
The mudslide looked like online videos he had seen of slides
in other parts of the country. “All of a sudden it was real,” said
Harshey, who managed to video some of the slide on his own
iPhone 4.
Rodney Ady told the Sentinel he was jogging on the Cross Trail,
and came upon the Kramer Street slide about 20 minutes after it
occurred.
“I’ve never come across a scene like that before. I was in a state
of shock when I came across it,” Ady said.